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Description: | Boulton and Watt Rotative Beam Engine - the 'Lap' engine. This is the oldest essentially unaltered rotative engine in the world. Built by James Watt in 1788, it incorporates all of his most important steam-engine improvements. The engine was used at Matthew Boulton�s Soho Manufactory in Birmingham, where it drove 43 metal polishing (or �lapping�) machines for 70 years. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | beam engines | Temporal: | 1788 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Watt, James, 1736-1819 | Identifier: | http://collectionsonline.nmsi.ac.uk/grab... | Go to resource |
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