Engine Collection (page 8)

Drawing of the 1934 ten horse-power Standard model, 1934. From The Treasury of Knowledge. [Richard Clay & Sons, Ltd. Bungay, Suffolk, 1934]

Isambard Kingdom Brunels steam engine, 1827. Artist: J Pass
Isambard Kingdom Brunels steam engine, 1827

Eves Patent Steam Engine, 1827. Artist: J Pass
Eves Patent Steam Engine, 1827

Countess of Dufferin, Canada, c1920s. The first steam locomotive to operate in the Canadian prairie provinces. Cigarette card produced by the Westminster Tobacco Co Ltd, Canada 1st series

Canadian Pacific passenger engine, Canada, c1920s. Cigarette card produced by the Westminster Tobacco Co Ltd, Canada 1st series

Opening of the first railway line from St Petersburg to Pavlovsk, Russia, 1830s. Artist: Russian Master
Opening of the first railway line from St Petersburg to Pavlovsk, Russia, 1830s. The first railway in Russia was opened in 1837

The conquest of the air at the Ambigu-Comique, 1900. A print from La Vie au Grand Air, 2nd December 1900

Train Crash at Bellevue in 1842 (19th century). From the Chateau of Sceaux, France

Diesel engine: internal combustion engine invented by Rudolph Diesel in 1897 (c1910). In 1892, Diesel (1858-1913) patented a design for a new type of internal combustion engine

London & South Western Railway (LSWR) Locomotive No 5, Ganymede and tender, c1873. This 2-4-0 steam locomotive was built in the LSWRs workshops at Nine Elms, South London, in 1873

Ffestiniog Railway steam Locomotive No 8 James Spooner, 1872. This 0-4-4-0 Fairlie Patent locomotive was built by the Avonside Engine Company Ltd, Bristol, England

North Staffordshire 0-6-0 steam locomotive with driver and fireman on the footplate, 19th century. The North Staffordshire Railway opened in 1845

North Staffordshire Railway steam Locomotive No 14 and its tender c1875. This 2-4-0 locomotive, pictured with driver and fireman on the footplate

Elevated Railway in New York, from The Picture Magazine, c19th century
Elevated Railway in New York, an illustration taken from The Picture Magazine, c19th century

Longitudinal section of a steam turbine fitted into the Dover packet boat Queen, c1904. The turbines for the Queen were designed by the Anglo-Irish engineer Sir Charles Parsons (1854-1931)

Longtudinal sections of two steam turbines. 1: Parsons marine turbine; 2: Rateaus marine turbine. Anglo-Irish engineer Sir Charles Parsons (1854-1931)

Steam turbines fitted into the Dover packet boat Queen, 1904. The turbines were designed by the Anglo-Irish engineer Sir Charles Parsons (1854-1931)

Space Shuttle Columbia on Earth, 1980s. Rear of Columbia, at Kennedy Space Centre, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, showing Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSME)

Garrett & Sons Double-Cylinder Steam Ploughing Engine and Tackle, c1862. Men lay out a system of ropes or cords connected to a steam engine

George Stephensons locomotive Rocket, 1829 (1859). On 11 October 1829 Rocket won the Rainhill Trials, a competition held to determine the engine to be used on the Liverpool to Manchester Railway

George Stephensons locomotive Rocket, 1829 (1900). On 11 October 1829 Rocket won the Rainhill Trials, a competition held to determine the engine to be used on the Liverpool to Manchester Railway

Railway engine in the former Czechslovakia

Medal commemorating the centenary of the birth of George Stephenson, railway engineer, 1881
Medal commemorating the centenary of the birth of George Stephenson, British railway engineer (1781-1848), 1881. It shows the Rocket

Stephensons Rocket winning the Rainhill Trials, 14 October 1829 (1898). George Stephensons (1781-1848) locomotive Rocket winning the competition held at Rainhill, Merseyside

Santos-Dumont making the first powered plane flight in Europe, Paris, 1906
Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932) flying his 14-Bis aeroplane, powered by an Antoinette engine, in the Bois du Boulogne, Paris, in 1906

Samuel Franklin Cody (1862-1913) in his biplane. American-born British aviator

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