Cylinder Gallery
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Artists impression of the Hall-Scott A-8 500hp inline engine
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LCC-LFB Shand Mason motor steam fire engine
The motor steam fire engine with independent pumping and propelling engines was developed later than the Merryweather Fire King self-propelled steam engine. Developed in 1909 with its oil burning boiler to a double-cylinder reversing engine its first sale was to the London Fire Brigade. The chain drive, from the engine, can be clearly seen attached to the axle of the rear wheel. Seen here at London Fire Brigade headquarters, Southwark SE1
© London Fire Brigade / Mary Evans Picture Library

Cylinder of Cyrus the Great with text written in akkadian cu
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Paris, France - La Tour Eiffel, Otis Elevators
Paris, France - La Tour Eiffel, Otis Elevators. The Otis elevator in the Eiffel Tower, built by the American Elevator Company. first view shows a car filled with fifty passengers with the front removed to show the interior. Figure B shows one leg of the Tower at the base, showing the actual incline. 1 marks the hydraulic cylinder, 2, the travelling multiplying pulleys, 2 stationary multiplying pulleys, 4, double landing-platform and 5 the ascending car, moving on trucks at angle shown to the first storey where, rounding a sharp curve, it continues on different angles to the second storey rising 420 ft in one minute. 6 shows the cables lifting the car and 6A the same cables returning to cylinder. The picture on the right is a general view of the 1000 foot tower, built as the centrepiece of the Paris International Exhibition in 1889 Date: 1889
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Music-box mechanism with cylinder and hammers to play chimes
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Pictures on the wireless! New wonder for B.B.C audience 1928
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A B C propelled by steam velocipede 1869
Two wheeled steam-powered velocipede, consisting of oscillating cylinders situated behind the carriage, driving a small cranked stage. Steam is supplied from a small boiler, located in the front and carried through the steam pipe into the trunnion box between the cylinders and after performing its work finds its passage into the exhaust pipe in the usual manner, stated that this vehicle should be driven in the country side where there is lots of open spaces and not in the streets of London. Date: 1869
© Mary Evans Picture Library