Traction engines : a technical insight

Maker and role
Farming Press Videos, Author
 Production date
Circa 1993

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Accession number
06-156
Maker
Farming Press Videos
Description
Produced by Insight Films for Farming Press Videos. This video reveals how traction engines were developed, over 200 years, from the majestic Cornish beam engines of the early 1700s. It shows the world's largest working beam engine in action, and explains in detail how it works. The story then unfolds through archive pictures of the engines built by Richard Trevithick and James Watt, and the early attempts at mobilising agricultural engines, until it arrives at the traction engine we all recognise. PAL.
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Processed Material/Paper
Physical description
1 videocassette (VHS) (37 minutes) : sound, colour ; 1/2 in.
ISBN/ISSN
0852362684
Credit line
Farming Press Videos. Circa 1993. Traction engines : a technical insight, 06-156. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).

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