James Watt's Steam Beam Engine 🚂 in Parallel Motion

The Steam Beam Engine was based on James Watt's design and could be seen in parallel motion. I visited the Jesse Shirley Etruscan Bone and Flint Mill, now part of the Etruria Industrial Museum in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. This mill supplied ground, calcinated bones and bone ash essential for Bone China from 1857 up to its closure in 1972. Open on Heritage Open Day in 2023, the Engine Room was open with steam engines lit and operated by an excellent team of volunteers who were good enough to give interviews and explain their operations to the Author on the Potteries.
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The introduction of the steam engine to the pottery industry in the 1770 improved productivity and quality. “Princess” is a double acting condensing rotative beam engine to the design of James Watt. She was purchased second hand and installed when the mill was built in 1856/7. She is thought to have been manufactured by Bateman and Sherratt of Salford, Manchester in the 1820s, who were rivals and competitors of the famous Boulton and Watt company in Birmingham.

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