File:SS Hercules 1830.png

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file(3,000 × 2,082 pixels, file size: 1.2 MB, MIME type: image/png)

Captions

Captions

1830 drawing of the compund engine of S.S. Hercules

Summary

[edit]
Description
English: This is an English language reproduction that the magazine the Engineer made from an 1830 drawing of the compound steam engine of the tugboat Hercules. It proves that compound steam engines were in effective use for inland navigation by the 1830s. The signatures of Croll, Walter Pearce and a third witness for its authenticity are on the bottom right.
Date
Source The Engineer https://books.google.nl/books?id=R8ghAQAAMAAJ
Author S.A. Heucke in 1830

Licensing

[edit]
Public domain

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer.


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current18:53, 12 September 2022Thumbnail for version as of 18:53, 12 September 20223,000 × 2,082 (1.2 MB)Grieg2 (talk | contribs)Uploaded a work by S.A. Heucke in 1830 from The Engineer https://books.google.nl/books?id=R8ghAQAAMAAJ with UploadWizard

There are no pages that use this file.

File usage on other wikis

The following other wikis use this file:

Metadata