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    Levant Mine and Beam Engine is a National Trust property at Trewellard, Pendeen, near St Just, Cornwall, England, UK. Its main attraction is that it has...
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    The first beam engines were water-powered and used to pump water from mines. A preserved example may be seen at the Straitsteps Lead Mine in Wanlockhead...
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  • the Middle East Levant Herald, a bilingual newspaper published in the Ottoman Empire Levant Mine and Beam Engine, an engine at a tin mine on the western...
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    one of the mine's steam engines. The steam engine or water wheel would be linked to a series of beams – known as "rods" – fastened together and reaching...
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    the United Kingdom. Cornwall portal Levant Mine and Beam Engine Geevor Tin Mine Consolidated Mines Dolcoath mine OS Explorer 102 Land's End (Map). Southampton:...
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    A Cornish engine is a type of steam engine developed in Cornwall, England, mainly for pumping water from a mine. It is a form of beam engine that uses...
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    Wheal Trewavas (category Copper mines in Cornwall)
    Rinsey Mining in Cornwall and Devon Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape Wheal Vor Levant Mine and Beam Engine Botallack Mine Wikimedia Commons has media...
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    was the formation of the Cornish Engines Preservation Committee (CEPC) in 1935, to rescue the Levant Mine and Beam Engine in Cornwall. During the early 20th...
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    Wheal Prosper (category Tin mines in Cornwall)
    nearby mine captains house Cornwall portal Wheal Trewavas Wheal Vor Botallack Mine Levant Mine and Beam Engine Mining in Cornwall and Devon Cornwall and West...
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    steam engines for transportation and mining applications. In 1935 the Cornish Engines Preservation Committee (CEPC) was formed to rescue the Levant winding...
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    developed and the first shaft of Prestongrange's last mine was sunk in 1830. A beam engine, modified by Harvey and Company of Hoyle in Cornwall and shipped...
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    the majority voting against repeal. A tunnel collapse at the Levant Mine and Beam Engine in Cornwall, England killed 31 miners. French pilot Bernard de...
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    killed by a sudden flood; at Levant Mine in 1919, where 31 were killed and many injured in a failure of the man engine; 12 killed at Wheal Agar in 1883...
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  • 1862 when the beam of the pumping engine broke suddenly and fell into the single shaft serving the pit. The beam blocked the shaft and entombed hundreds...
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    of pump—with a beam engine—used widely in Cornwall's tin mines, in which he reversed the plunger to change it into a water-power engine. As his experience...
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  • List of National Trust properties in England (category Buildings and structures in England)
    Godrevy Hawker's Hut Kynance Cove Lanhydrock House Lawrence House Levant Mine & Beam Engine Penrose, Cornwall Sandymouth Beach St Anthony Head St Michael's...
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    List of museums in Cornwall (category Lists of buildings and structures in Cornwall)
    government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections...
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    Cornish-design beam engines and other mining machinery was to be exported from major engineering foundries in Hayle, Perranarworthal, Tavistock and elsewhere...
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  • launched in 1923, and completed in 1924. The ship was 328 feet 9 inches (100.20 m) long, with a beam of 46 feet 0 inches (14.02 m) and a depth of 18 feet...
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    stabilization system and TShSM-32PV sights, V-55U engine, improved suspension and RMSh tracks, increased armour, anti-mine, anti-napalm and improved anti-radiation...
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    TVN-5, steering system, twin-pin tracks, 1000 hp engine, frontal floor plate reinforced against mines, driver seat suspended from the ceiling). BMO-T (Boyevaya...
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    Italian battleship Giulio Cesare (category Ships sunk by mines)
    waterline and 176 meters (577 ft 5 in) overall. They had a beam of 28 meters (91 ft 10 in), and a draft of 9.3 meters (30 ft 6 in). The Conte di Cavour-class...
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  • Launceston Castle Launceston F.C. Launceston RUFC Launceston, Cornwall Levant Mine & Beam Engine Lew Trenchard Liskeard Liskeard & Looe Union Canal Liskeard (UK...
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    millennium BC in West Bank were the earliest from the Levant. Gold artifacts such as the golden hats and the Nebra disk appeared in Central Europe from the...
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  • Germaniawerft in 1936 as the freighter Cairo, she was operated by the Atlas Levant Line (ALL) until being requisitioned for Kriegsmarine services in November...
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  • Général Leman in 1915, Kilbane in 1926, and Frossoula in 1938. She took Jewish refugees from Europe to the Levant in 1939. A German air attack sank her...
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    SMS Breslau (category Ships sunk by mines)
    overall and had a beam of 13.5 m (44 ft 3 in) and a draft of 4.4 m (14 ft 5 in) forward. She displaced 4,564 t (4,492 long tons) normally and up to 5...
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    (554 ft 2 in) long at the waterline, and 176 meters (577 ft 5 in) overall. They had a beam of 28 meters (91 ft 10 in), and a draft of 9.3 meters (30 ft 6 in)...
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    the Levant in Smyrna with the battleships Habsburg and Arpad and the coastal defence ship Monarch and then marched on via Alexandria, Kefalonia and Valona...
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    valuable source of power. The steam engine helped drain the mines, so more coal reserves could be accessed, and the output of coal increased. The development...
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