Now the world’s oldest steam engine still where originally built, in the heart of South Yorkshire, is ready to celebrate a special anniversary year thanks to local volunteers. The Newcomen Beam ...

Newcomen's engine operated on the same principle, but the vacuum was produced by a beam that moved similarly to a metronome. One end was attached to the valve and the other to the boiler ...

English Heritage listed 10 key industrial sites on the at-risk register which included the Elsecar Newcomen Beam Engine. Earlier this year the Heritage Lottery Fund [HLF] gave £40,500 to the ...

The initial design of Newcomen's engine used a vertical brass cylinder with a piston connected to a rocking beam. A copper boiler sat below the cylinder to heat the water to boiling. When the ...

The £500,000 project on the Newcomen Beam Engine at Elsecar Heritage Centre in Barnsley will take two years. Thomas Newcomen's engines made removing water from mines faster and easier than ...

with a piston and rocking beam which activated the pump rods in a mine. Savery had called his machine "the Miner's Friend", but it was the combination demonstrated in Newcomen's engine of 1712 ...

But the Newcomen beam engine on the old Elsecar colliery site in Barnsley is a unique relic of the Industrial Revolution which even attracted the attention of Henry Ford. Now Barnsley Council ...

Newcomen's achievement featured in a recent set of Royal Mail commemorative stamps A replica of the world's first steam engine has been unveiled in the West Midlands to mark the 300th anniversary ...

The £500,000 project on the Newcomen Beam Engine at Elsecar Heritage Centre in Barnsley will take two years. Thomas Newcomen's engines made removing water from mines faster and easier than ...