Boiler Collection (page 4)

Advert for Ewarts Califront hot water 1927
Advertisement for Ewarts baths and geysers, with a picture of a maid bringing a tray of morning tea to her mistress, who is still reclinging in bed, and clearly too busy to even switch on her bath

Advert for Ewarts Geyser hot water 1927
A contented housewife is about to fill her hot water bottle from her Ewarts Geyser water heater. Date: 1927

Lagged Boiler
A lagged hot water boiler in a household basement or loft. Date: 1970s

Leo Tolstoy Caricature
LEO TOLSTOY Russian novelist writing his story The Kreutzer Sonata as a pot-boiler Date: 1828 - 1910

The last steam engine at Carnforth
Tradesmen at Carnforth standing in front of their engine. Left to right: boiler washer, Norman Wilson; firedropper, Norman Cottier; bar lad, Tommy Longstaffe; driver, Joe Harrison; and steamraiser

Longitudinal section of the boiler houses and chimneys Date: 1795

Cross section of engines and boiler houses Date: 1795

Cross section of the boilers Date: 1795

Plan of the engine and boiler houses Date: 1795

Boiler Room, Wigmore Schools, West Midlands
The boiler room at the Walsall and West Bromwich District School on Pennyhill Lane, Wigmore. The schools engineer and four young helpers stand alongside massive lumps of coal

Interior of kitchen, Strangeways Prison, Manchester
The interior of a prison kitchen, believed to be at Strangeways Prison, Manchester. The room is filled with assorted boilers, coppers, ovens and cooking hobs. Much of the cooking was done using steam

Clayton & Shuttleworths Compound Steam Engine
Clayton & Shuttleworths Compound Undertype Steam Engine and Boiler. Clayton & Shuttleworth was an engineering company located at Stamp End Works, Lincoln, Lincolnshire

Marshall Britannia Boiler transported - India
The transportation of a Marshall Britannia boiler across the Indian countryside by a vast team of oxen and men. Many thousands of portable steam engines were made between the 1840s and 1920s

The Royal Train Pilot

Turkish railway locomotive
Turkey - Locomotive for the route to Damascus and beyond. The engine weighed 47 tonnes!

Ice-cutting Machine
A late 19th century Steam-powered Ice-cutting Machine operating on the frozen exoanse of the St Lawrence River, Canada. Possibly one of historys more risky undertakings for an apparatus of this

Hammersmith Hospital, London
Aerial view of Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, Hammersmith, West London, originally opened in 1905 as the Hammersmith workhouse and infirmary

Titanic blueprint (part)
Part of the blueprint of the SS Titanic, showing first, second and third class passenger areas, crew rooms and boiler rooms

Saving the processional cross - The Blitz
Saving the processional cross from a church demolished by a night raiders bomb in a London suburb on 5th September, 194"

Hoisting a new boiler into a Cargo Liner, 1916
Illustration showing a 200-ton floating crane hoisting a new boiler into a cargo liner of the British Merchant Navy, at a British port, 1916. The name of the liner appears to be T Winfield

Armstrongs hydro-electric machine
Hydro-electric machine invented by William George Armstrong (1810-1900), later Baron Armstrong of Bamburgh and Cragside, in the 1840 s

Griffith Steam Carriage
The patent steam carriage of Julius Griffith, a road locomotive which was effective in practise, but had little success due to a backlash from the horse-powered lobby

Central Heating System
A steam central heating system. The left picture shows the boiler which heats the steam, the right picture shows a typical radiator in the room

Broadside / Soap Boiler
A soap boiler. These tradesman are preachers in the City of London, 1647. A satirical broadside on non- conformist preaching in London

Advert / Gulf Geyser 1900
Richmonds Gulf Stream geyser

Stephenson Long Boiler
Stephensons long-boiler locomotive

Fire Engine Arrives
The arrival of the fire-engine

Beverley Fire-Engine
A fire engine in action at Beverley, Yorkshire

Hodge Steam Fire-Engine
The Hodge Steam fire-engine. The first recorded attempt at fire prevention in New York City was in 1659, and this locomotive-style engine is the first native-built engine

Steam Fire-Boat / 1874
A fire-boat designed and constructed by Merryweathers for the River Wear Commissioners. The pumps could throw any type of water, however muddy or salty

Deluge Fire Engine
Merryweathers Deluge direct-acting fire engine

MOOREs STEAM MAN 1893
Two illustrations of Canadian inventor George Moores Steam Man, a fully mobile robot automaton powered by an internal steam engine

MOOREs STEAM MAN C1890
The Steam Man automaton of Canadian Professor George Moore, which has an internal engine allowing it to walk, and vent steam through a well placed cigar!

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