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Description: | Scotland - In 'Inventory of the apparatus as in Nat. Philosophy Class of the United College May 1847 by D. Smith' (Hay Mss Box 59 No.4) it is noted: 'In the commissioner's report of 1837 - I find an Entry [pd] Mr Duncan for Model of Steam Engine 5 July 1824 - - / Feb 1825 - £21'.
The beam engine appears in the 1837 inventory (Hay Mss Box 59 No.1) as 'Working model of a steam engine'. It features in subsequent inventories.
Professor Baird recalled a card with details of the beam engine, associated with it in the 1950s and now lost, which he thought gave the date of manufacture as 1820. | Publisher: | University of St Andrews | Rights holder: | 47795 | Subjects: | BEAM ENGINE model WATT DEMONSTRATION PHYSICS ENGINE TEACHING MINE | Temporal: | 1824/1824 | Source: | University of St Andrews | Creator: | DUNCAN, | Identifier: | PH200 | Language: | en-GB |
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