A photograph made by Hallam Ashley of a technical drawing done by John Smeaton in the 18th century. Plan of the Blacking Mill for turning Grindstones for Carron Works.
A photograph made by Hallam Ashley of a technical drawing done by John Smeaton in the 18th century. Signed by Smeaton but date missing from the original.
A photograph made by Hallam Ashley of a technical drawing done by John Smeaton in the 18th century. In 1775 speculators built a rolling mill on the Cocquet in Northumberland with a dam built by Smeaton. This became the Acklington Tin Works and was in production until 1884.
A photograph made by Hallam Ashley of a technical drawing done by John Smeaton in the 18th century. See also SPAB-GPN-E-006 for a lantern slide of the same drawing.
A photograph made by Hallam Ashley of a technical drawing done by John Smeaton in the 18th century. The Griff Collieries in North Warwickshire were formed by connecting a number of small collieries along the Griff arm of the Coventry Canal.
A photograph made by Hallam Ashley of a technical drawing done by John Smeaton in the 18th century. A penstock is a type of sluice often used at mill sites to control the flow of water through the mill wheel.
A photograph made by Hallam Ashley of a technical drawing done by John Smeaton in the 18th century. The drawing is titled 'Design for the Iron Axis showing the Manner of fixing the Waterwheel Etc.'
A photograph made by Hallam Ashley of a technical drawing done by John Smeaton in the 18th century.
'Design for a Water Mill for His Majesty's Victualing Office Works at the Red House to be worked by water raised by a Steam Engine'. Transverse and Longitudinal Sections are drawn. The yard at Deptford became the largest food-processing operation in England. It was largely rebuilt between 1774 and 1785.
About 1839 a portable steam engine was produced, allowing the application of steam power in the fields beyond the confines of the farmyard. William Tuxford of Boston, Lincolnshire started manufacture of an engine built around a locomotive-style boiler.
