Nineteenth-century Energy Sources

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General

• Steam Power, Horse Power, Man Power

Human and animal power

• Medieval man-powered crane used to lift stone from quarries

Wind Power on land

• Horning Mill and Sailing Boats
• Near Battersea
• Gravesend
• Mear Greenwich
• Kempsford, Berkshire
• Turret windmill in Norhtumbria

Wind Power on water

• Nineteenth-Century Ships, Boats, and Naval Architecture and Engineering (sitemap)
• Cambria — a Thames River Spritsail Barge
• Provident — a 70-foot Brixham Trawler ("the fastest, most seaworthy fishing craft ever developed in Britain")
• Clipper Ships
• The River Torridge Barge, the Tetty Boat
• Wavertree (1885), iron-hulled three-masted cargo ship
• Peking (1911), an iron-hulled four-masted bark,

Water Power

• Water-Powered Drop Forge, South Yorkshire. c. 1750
• Ashford, Old Mill. Water Power in the late nineteenth century. c. 1890-1900.

Steam Power

• Steam Power (sitemap)
• Portable Steam Engine, 1828. Workshop of Maudslay, Sons & Field
• A Marine Steam Engine of 220 Horses by James Hall Nasmyth, 1832
• The Thomson Steam Turbine, 1850
• Railways

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Last modified 22 August 2011