Steam Engine - Tangye Single Cylinder Horizontal

Historical information

Builders Number 4767
Used for steam engine driving instruction at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

build date of approximately 1884 +/- 1 year.
worked out from http://www.internationalsteam.co.uk/mills/burmamill22.htm

Donated by The Royal Melbourne Institute of technology in 1969

Of Interest : The Vertical and Horizontal Tangye engines on display are of the design that won a Gold Medallion at the Paris Industrial Exhibition of 1878.

Significance

Historic - Industrial Steam Engine Equipment

Physical description

Steam Engine - Cast Iron (painted) Steel (raw) Bronze (Raw) Timber (Oiled)

Inscriptions & markings

Tangye Birmingham

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