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...
18 KB (955 words) - 18:25, 6 August 2024
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...
17 KB (2,076 words) - 19:54, 15 November 2024
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...
2 KB (334 words) - 13:27, 3 April 2023
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...
13 KB (1,605 words) - 21:14, 27 September 2024
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:...
17 KB (1,262 words) - 13:19, 9 November 2024
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...
17 KB (2,141 words) - 22:18, 1 October 2024
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...
6 KB (532 words) - 15:07, 31 July 2024
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...
38 KB (3,810 words) - 02:45, 28 October 2024
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...
4 KB (244 words) - 09:39, 21 August 2024
Trevithick Society (redirect from Cornish Engines Preservation Committee)
steam engines for transportation and mining applications. In 1935 the Cornish Engines Preservation Committee (CEPC) was formed to rescue the Levant winding...
10 KB (808 words) - 17:26, 16 February 2024
Prestongrange Museum (section Beam engine)
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...
9 KB (1,025 words) - 02:13, 7 November 2024
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...
74 KB (7,623 words) - 10:47, 8 October 2024
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...
78 KB (7,830 words) - 22:28, 24 October 2024
Mining accident (redirect from Mine explosion)
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...
103 KB (10,524 words) - 23:50, 10 November 2024
Richard Trevithick (redirect from High pressure engine)
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...
55 KB (6,909 words) - 01:50, 24 November 2024
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...
15 KB (1,295 words) - 23:02, 21 July 2024
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...
20 KB (250 words) - 04:45, 25 November 2024
Cornish-design beam engines and other mining machinery was to be exported from major engineering foundries in Hayle, Perranarworthal, Tavistock and elsewhere...
8 KB (752 words) - 01:21, 18 April 2024
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...
9 KB (609 words) - 17:42, 22 October 2024
stabilization system and TShSM-32PV sights, V-55U engine, improved suspension and RMSh tracks, increased armour, anti-mine, anti-napalm and improved anti-radiation...
194 KB (22,713 words) - 23:43, 10 November 2024
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...
115 KB (12,882 words) - 12:48, 20 November 2024
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...
31 KB (3,580 words) - 20:31, 23 October 2024
Launceston Castle Launceston F.C. Launceston RUFC Launceston, Cornwall Levant Mine & Beam Engine Lew Trenchard Liskeard Liskeard & Looe Union Canal Liskeard (UK...
18 KB (2,033 words) - 22:46, 29 April 2024
Gold (redirect from Pollution from gold mines)
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...
142 KB (16,014 words) - 01:41, 11 November 2024
Germaniawerft in 1936 as the freighter Cairo, she was operated by the Atlas Levant Line (ALL) until being requisitioned for Kriegsmarine services in November...
8 KB (615 words) - 08:44, 4 September 2024
SS Frossoula (section Building and registration)
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...
17 KB (1,540 words) - 08:44, 22 November 2024
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...
36 KB (4,459 words) - 22:52, 18 August 2024
(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)...
36 KB (4,541 words) - 04:17, 21 August 2024
SMS Satellit (section Other uses and modifications)
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...
13 KB (1,774 words) - 11:05, 11 July 2023
History of technology (section By period and geography)
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...
96 KB (11,187 words) - 17:23, 23 October 2024