beam engine

A kind of steam engine where a pivoted overhead beam is used to apply the force from a vertical piston to a vertical connecting rod.

Noun

  1. A kind of steam engine where a pivoted overhead beam is used to apply the force from a vertical piston to a vertical connecting rod.
    • The locomotives of the day had insufficient power to work the trains up the gradient, and it was decided to install beam type steam engines on the platform at Edge Hill Station, to haul them on an endless hempen rope...

Forms

beam engines