Excavating the iconic: The rediscovery of the Fairbottom Bobs Colliery pumping engine
(2004)
Journal Article
Nevell, M., Roberts, J., & Champness, B. (2004). Excavating the iconic: The rediscovery of the Fairbottom Bobs Colliery pumping engine. Industrial Archaeology Review, XXVI(2), 83-93
Steam engines were one of the first machine-types to attract the attention of antiquarians and later
Industrial Archaeologists. From the first Newcomen engine in 1712 to the 20th-century steam turbine, these objects still exert a fascination for arc...
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