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Show VOriLD'3 OLDEST ENDING. It Wim Construct I in 1777 and UaJ lleeu In Utrvlco Until Itorently, The oldest engine in the world Is in the possession of the Birmingham Canal Navigations, this cnglno having been rontlructcd by Boulton & Watt m tho yetr 1777. Tho order Is ontcred In tho firm's books In that year as a single-acting beam engine, with Cha ns at each end ot a wood beam, and having hav-ing tho steam cylinder 32 Inches In diameter, with a ntroko of S feet, and erected nt tho rnnal company's pump lng station nt Itolfo street, Bmethwlck. During tho present year (1303) this remarkable re-markable old engine, which has been regularly at work from the time ot its erection to tho current year, a period pe-riod of, say, 120 yoara, was removed to the canal company's station nt Ccker Hill, Tipton, thcro lo bo ro-ercctcd ro-ercctcd and preserved ns a relic of what can be done by good management when dealing with machinery of undoubted un-doubted quality, it u worthy of noto that the Birmingham Canal Navigations Navi-gations favored Doulton & Watt in 1777 with tho order for this engine, and In 1SDS, or 12f year3 afterward, the company hen., Intrusted the samo firm, Jomcs WdVt & Co., Soho, Bmoth-wlck, Bmoth-wlck, with tho manufacture of two of their modern triple-expansion vertical engines, to be erected at the Walsall pumping station, having 2i0 horse power and a pumping capacity of 12,713,000 gallons per day. London Engineering. |