London Museum of Water and Steam - part of the electric house display
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London Museum of Water and Steam - part of the electric house display
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 30 Dec 2019
This building originally housed a Worthington horizontal triple expansion pump but in the 1940s housed electric pumps that remained in use until the 1980s. It has now been successfully re-imagined as the Museum's electric house to illustrate the use of electricity in waterworks. This beautifully restored exhibit is an E Reader inverted vertical compound (enclosed) steam engine driving a Siemens dynamo (DC). It came from the Bifurcated & Tubular rivet Company at Aylesbury. See - Image and Image
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