Subject: Re: Kew Bridge Museum

From: [email-masked] (James Kirkpatrick)
Date: 22 Apr 96 13:23:59 MDT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (darylb) writes:
|>Hey this is a cool site!! These engines are positively massive How do you
|>keep up with an engine that consumes 500gal of water per stroke?

I think you mis-read the description.  The purpose of the engines were
to pump water.  On one stroke, it would pump 500 gallons of water;
not *consume* it.

Jim

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From: [email-masked] (Wayne P. Holland)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 00:02:48 GMT

[email-masked] (W. Kaiser) wrote:

>I ran across the Kew Bridge web site by accident.  The first line of the
>page says "A steam engine you can walk through while it's working, in a
>building like a cathedral."  That's the place.  If you like BIG steam 
>engines, take a look there.

>http://www.cre.canon.co.uk/~davide/kbsm/

>--
>Bill Kaiser
>[email-masked]

My wife and I visited in 1995. We got there just in time to see them
start the 90 inch. After the "Driver" had it started and running on
its own he took time to answer the 100 or so questions I had. I was
amazed at how anything so massive could seem so gentle.

The people that run the steam club were all great and do a wonderful
job at the site.I had a little trouble locating the place, but it was
worth it. I'd reccomend this place to anybody who is interested in
steam or machinery

Wayne Holland
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Mick Collins)
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 22:55:16 BST

[email-masked] (Wayne P. Holland) wrote:

> . I'd reccomend this place to anybody who is interested in steam or
> machinery

  And if they're also interested in automata, the Mechanical Music
Museum is only a short walk up the road from the pumping station.
  -- 
     Cheers

  Mick  S.M.E.E.           "From the inventors shop came
                                 the sound of hammering tin"

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From: [email-masked] (darylb)
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 13:26:11 +0000

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
> Museum is only a short walk up the road from the pumping station.

Do they have an on-line web page?

Daryl

-- 
A Prisoner of "BOTTOMLINE WORLD"

To those who followed Columbus and Cortez, the New World truly seemed incredible because of the natural endowments. The land often announced itself with a heavy scent miles out into the ocean. Giovanni da Verrazano in 1524 smelled the cedars of the East Coast a hundred leagues out. The men of Henry Hudson's Half Moon were temporarily disarmed by the fragrance of the New Jersey shore, while ships running farther up the coast occasionally swam through large beds of  flowers. Wherever they came inland they found a rich riot of color and sound, of game and luxuriant vegetation. Had they been other than who they were, they might have written a new mythology here. As it was, they took inventory.- Frederick Turner

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From: Douglas Cutler <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 07:59:06 -0700

darylb wrote:
 
> Yes:
   
    http://www.cre.canon.co.uk/~davide/kbs

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From: Douglas Cutler <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 11:45:45 -0700

>     http://www.cre.canon.co.uk/~davide/kbs

 Sorry the correct URL is: