Engineering Heritage Awards
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The Engineering Heritage Awards, formally known as the Engineering Heritage Hallmark Scheme, were established by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
(IMechE) in 1984 to help recognise and promote engineering achievements, past and present. Its purpose is to identify and promote artefacts, locations, collections and landmarks of significant engineering importance which have changed or enhanced the way we live.
With the launch of the Engineering Heritage Awards in 2008, a new cast plaque was created. This was slightly modified in 2009 to reflect the rebranding of the Institution.
Institution of Mechanical Engineers
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers is the British engineering society based in central London, representing mechanical engineering. It is licensed by the Engineering Council UK to assess candidates for inclusion on ECUK's Register of professional Engineers...
(IMechE) in 1984 to help recognise and promote engineering achievements, past and present. Its purpose is to identify and promote artefacts, locations, collections and landmarks of significant engineering importance which have changed or enhanced the way we live.
Engineering Heritage Hallmark Scheme (EHHS)
In 1984, IMechE launched its Engineering Heritage Hallmark Scheme. For an object or artefact etc to be considered for an award, an IMechE member would be required to complete a nomination form and submit it to the Institution. Upon submission, two referees would be appointed, one nominated by the Regional Committee where the object is located and a second independent referee. The submissions from both referees would then be reviewed by the Institution's Technical Support department before a decision was taken on the application.Engineering Heritage Awards (EHA)
In 2007, the Institution established the Heritage Committee to reinvigorate, relaunch and promote the now renamed Engineering Heritage Awards. Its first task was to simplify the application process, making it more transparent and with a quicker decision-making process. Furthermore, the criteria was changed with the Institution's own library and information service now involved in the verification of details being submitted. The Award plaque was also redesigned (see below), helping to increase the value of the Award to the recipient.EHHA and EHA Plaques
Over the past 26 years, the plaques presented to EHHS and EHA recipients have changed four times. The original plaque was a blue ceramic disc approximately 40 cm in wide. This was replaced in the 1990s by a rectangular steel plate mounted on a wooden base.With the launch of the Engineering Heritage Awards in 2008, a new cast plaque was created. This was slightly modified in 2009 to reflect the rebranding of the Institution.
iPhone Application
On 25 October 2011, the Engineering Heritage Awards were added to the Instituiton of Mechanical Engineers' iPhone and iPad application. Users can now sort the awards by A-Z, type and location. The app can be downloaded from the Apple App Store (search 'Institution of Mechanical Engineers'). The app is in addition to the Engineering Heritage Award compendium.Engineering Heritage Award Recipients
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| Charles Algernon Parsons Sir Charles Algernon Parsons OM KCB FRS was an Anglo-Irish engineer, best known for his invention of the steam turbine. He worked as an engineer on dynamo and turbine design, and power generation, with great influence on the naval and electrical engineering fields... No. 5 Generator |
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Parsons Building, Trinity College, Dublin | This was one of the first commercial machines based on the 1884 patent by Charles A Parsons for a steam turbine and used a dynamo as load. Output 65 amps, 100 volts at a speed of 12,000rpm. Presented to Trinity College, Dublin by Gerald Stone, BAI, 1911. | |
| Claverton Pumping Station Claverton Pumping Station in the village of Claverton, in the English county of Somerset, pumps water from the River Avon to the Kennet and Avon Canal using power from the flow of the River Avon. It is a grade II listed building.... |
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Claverton Pumping Station, Ferry Lane, Claverton, Bath. BA2 7BH | Designed by John Rennie 1761-1821. Built 1820-1813. Restored by Kennet and Avon Canal Trust 1969-1976. | |
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Ffestiniog Railway The Ffestiniog Railway is a narrow gauge heritage railway, located in Gwynedd, Wales. It is a major tourist attraction located mainly within the Snowdonia National Park.... |
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Ffestiniog Railway, Harbour Station, Porthmadog, Gwynedd. LL49 9NF | In 1863 the company pioneered the use of narrow gauge steam locomotive haulage. The Fairlie patent design of articulated bogie locomotive and Britain’s first bogie coaches were successfully introduced in the 1870s. These innovations led to worldwide exports for British technology. |
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Garratt A Garratt is a type of steam locomotive that is articulated in three parts. Its boiler is mounted on the centre frame, and two steam engines are mounted on separate frames, one on each end of the boiler. Articulation permits larger locomotives to negotiate curves and lighter rails that might... |
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Museum of Science and Industry, Liverpool Road, Castlefield, Manchester. M3 4FP | Made by Beyer, Peacock and Company. Established in 1854 at Gorton, Manchester, the firm became world renowned for its locomotives. Charles Beyer and Richard Peacock were founder members of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. |
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River Don Engine The River Don Engine is a 1905-built steam engine used for hot rolling steel armour plate. It is a 3-cylinder simple engine of diameter, stroke. At its operating steam pressure of 160psi, it developed , and was able to reverse from full speed in 2 seconds. The rapid reverse was an essential... |
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Kelham Island Museum, Alma Street, Sheffield. S3 8RY | A three-cylinder 12,000 hp engine with Joy Valve Gear, one of the most powerful surviving steam engines in the world. Built in 1905 by Davy Brothers of Sheffield and installed at Cammell’s Grimesthorpe Works to drive an amour plate rolling mill, this engine was transferred to the River Don Works of English Steel Corporation where it remained until Easter 1978. |
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Cragside Cragside is a country house in the civil parish of Cartington in Northumberland, England. It was the first house in the world to be lit using hydroelectric power... |
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Cragside, Rothbury, Morpeth, Northumberland. NE65 7PX | The House of Lord Armstrong (1810–1900)investor, engineer and armaments manufacturer. His hydraulic and hydroelectric inventions were applied throughout his estate. The house was the first in the world to be lit by electricity derived from water power. |
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Henry Maudslay Henry Maudslay was a British machine tool innovator, tool and die maker, and inventor. He is considered a founding father of machine tool technology.-Early life:... Rope-Forming Machine |
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Chatham Historical Dockyard, The Old Surgery, The Historic Dockyard, Chatham, Kent. ME4 4TZ | Designed and manufactured in 1811 by Henry Maudslay (1711–1831). It was used to re-rope HMS Victory and is still in use today. |
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Eling Tide Mill Eling Tide Mill, situated on an artificial causeway in Eling in Hampshire, England, is one of only two remaining operating tide mills in the United Kingdom. The other is Woodbridge Tide Mill. Whilst a mill is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, there is no evidence that there is any connection... |
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Eling Tide Mill, The Tollbridge, Totton, Southampton. SP40 9HF | Restored in 1980 as a working tide mill museum. The only surviving mill in the world harnessing the power of the tide for the regular production of wholemeal flour. |
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Watt steam engine The Watt steam engine was the first type of steam engine to make use of steam at a pressure just above atmospheric to drive the piston helped by a partial vacuum... |
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Crofton Pumping Station, Crofton, Marlborough, Wiltshire. SN8 3DW | The world’s oldest steam engine still able to perform its original function. Presented to mark the year of the 250th anniversary of the birth of James Watt (Engineer) 1736–1819. |
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Kirkaldy Testing Museum The Kirkaldy Testing Museum is a museum in Southwark, south London, England, located on the site of David Kirkaldy's testing works. It houses Kirkaldy's huge testing machine, along with many smaller more modern machines... |
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Kirkaldy Testing Museum, 99 Southwark Street, London. SE1 0JF (open on first Sunday of the month) | Built in 1865 to David Kirkaldy’s design. This machine established the present-day system of materials testing and specifications of mechanical properties for engineering materials. |
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Tower Bridge Tower Bridge is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in London, England, over the River Thames. It is close to the Tower of London, from which it takes its name... |
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Tower Bridge, Tower Bridge Road, London. SE1 2UP | Built to the design of Sir John Wolfe Barry. The whole mechanical construction is unique in the world and the acme of steam and hydraulic power of the Victorian era. |
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London Post Office Railway The Post Office Railway, also known as Mail Rail, was a narrow-gauge driverless private underground railway in London built by the Post Office with assistance from the Underground Electric Railways Company of London to move mail between sorting offices... |
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Plaque presented to Mount Pleasant Post Office, London. (Railway not open to visitors) | Opened 5 December 1927. The first automatic electric railway and the only postal railway in the world, providing a unique solution to the problem of transporting large volumes of mail across a capital city. |
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Bellerophon Bellerophon or Bellerophontes is a hero of Greek mythology. He was "the greatest hero and slayer of monsters, alongside of Cadmus and Perseus, before the days of Heracles", and his greatest feat was killing the Chimera, a monster that Homer depicted with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a... |
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Plaque at Museum of Rail Travel, Ingrow near Keighley, West Yorkshire. BD21 5AX. (Bellerophon on loan to Foxfield Railway, Stoke-on-Trent) | Built in 1874 to Josiah Evans’ design at his family’s Haydock foundry. The earliest surviving example of piston valves in a steam locomotive. Restored to full working order by the Vintage Carriages Trust in 1985. |
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Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet is an industrial museum in the south of the City of Sheffield, England. The museum forms part of a former steel-working site on the River Sheaf, with a history going back to at least the 13th century... |
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Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, Abbeydale South Road, Sheffield. S7 2QW | The furnace (1829) is the world’s oldest surviving example of the type developed by Benjamin Huntsman. In its day it represented a great metallurgical achievement. The tilt hammers (1785) are probably the oldest set on their original site. They exemplify engineering technology in the heyday of water power. Together they symbolise the achievement of steel-makers and engineers which provided the foundations of the Industrial Revolution. |
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Darlington Railway Museum, North Road Station, Darlington. DL3 6ST | Locomotion was built to a design originated by George Stephenson, the first President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. On the opening day of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 27 September 1825, he drove this engine, hauling the inaugural train, on the world’s first steam-worked public railway. |
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Kingston Upon Thames (The site has since been demolished) | The world’s first operational V/STOL aircraft which entered service in 1969. Developed from the P1127, a concept by the Hawker Aircraft and Bristol Siddeley Engines design teams under the leadership of Sir Sydney Camm and Sir Stanley Hooker. |
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, usually referred to as Kew Gardens, is 121 hectares of gardens and botanical glasshouses between Richmond and Kew in southwest London, England. "The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew" and the brand name "Kew" are also used as umbrella terms for the institution that runs... |
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond. TW9 3AB | Designed by PSA Projects and opened on 28 July 1987 as the world’s most advanced energy-efficient conservatory. It incorporates ten different climatic zones, created and maintained by a fully integrated computer-controlled system. |
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Thames Barrier The Thames Barrier is the world's second-largest movable flood barrier and is located downstream of central London. Its purpose is to prevent London from being flooded by exceptionally high tides and storm surges moving up from the sea... |
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Thames Barrier Learning Center, 1 Unity Way, Woolwich, London. SE18 5NJ | Officially opened in 1984, it is the world’s largest navigable flood barrier and incorporated novel and unique engineering design and operation of equipment. It is vital and effective in London’s flood defences as well as being one of the capital’s aesthetically pleasing major structures. Project sponsored by the Greater London Council. Consulting engineers Rendel Palmer and Tritton. Operated by the National Rivers Authority. |
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Tees Transport Bridge, Ferry Road, Middlesbrough. TS2 1PL | This is the world’s longest operational transporter bridge. Since its opening in 1911 it has provided a reliable crossing of the Tees, without the need for approach embankments, allowing freedom of passage to ocean-going vessels. Designed by Mr GC Imbault of Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Co Ltd and built by Sir William Arrol and Co Ltd. |
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Wortley Top Forge Wortley Top Forge is an historic former finery forge and ironworks originally dating back to the seventeenth century, although evidence suggests iron working took place in the vicinity as early as the fourteenth century... |
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Wortley Top Forge Industrial Museum, Forge Lane, Thurgoland, South Yorkshire. S35 7DN | The world’s oldest surviving heavy-iron forge, operated from 1620 to 1908. It earned a worldwide reputation for the quality of the railway axles produced in the 19th century. It was a pioneering example of integrated engineering, combining research, design, and manufacture and testing. |
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Thames Water Ring Main The Thames Water Ring Main is a major part of London's water supply infrastructure that consists of an approximately 80 km system of mostly concrete pipelines used to transfer potable water from water treatment works in the Thames and River Lee catchments to distribution within London.The... |
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Throughout London. The Award was presented to Thames Water at its Islington offices. | This is a unique water distribution system with a pressurised closed tunnel ring of drinking water, gravity fed from several treatment works. |
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Williamson amplifier A Williamson amplifier refers to a type of vacuum tube amplifier whose circuit design is similar to that originally published by D.T.N. Williamson.- Explanation :... |
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65 Gilmore Place, Edinburgh. EH3 9NU (The house is now a 4 star bed and breakfast) | In this house lived David Theodore Nelson Williamson 1920–1992. Mechanical and Electrical Engineer. Originator of high-quality sound reproduction through his amplifier. World pioneer in the application of Numerical Control to Machine Tools which led to Computer-Aided Manufacture. |
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Turbinia Turbinia was the first steam turbine-powered steamship. Built as an experimental vessel in 1894, and easily the fastest ship in the world at that time, Turbinia was demonstrated dramatically at the Spithead Navy Review in 1897 and set the standard for the next generation of steamships, the... |
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Discovery Museum, Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne. NE1 4JA | TS Turbinia epitomises the achievements of Sir Charles Parsons (1854–1931), world renowned engineer and inventor. Turbinia is powered by his greatest invention, the first practical steam turbine, which transformed high speed ship propulsion and established the foundation for present-day electrical power generation. |
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National Waterfront Museum, Oystermouth Road, Maritime Quarter, Swansea. SA1 3RD | Richard Trevithick’s Penydarren Locomotive was constructed in 1804 and was operated by the Merthyr Tramroad. This is a replica of that machine which drew widespread recognition of the potential for rail traction of Trevithick’s high-pressure steam engine. |
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Bryan Donkin Bryan Donkin was an English engineer and industrialist. Of his six sons, John, Bryan, and Thomas also became engineers.-Early life:Born in Sandoe, Northumberland, his father was a surveyor and land agent... Rose Lathe |
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The engine was donated to the Science Museum, London. It is stored within their archives and not on display. | The intricate patterns engraved by this geometric lathe were used for over a century to protect bank notes and documents from forgery. In tandem with Bryan Donkin’s unique pantograph milling machine, the lathe produced high precision compound metal dies for printing simultaneously in two colours. |
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Rolls-Royce RB211 The Rolls-Royce RB211 is a family of high-bypass turbofan engines made by Rolls-Royce plc and capable of generating 37,400 to 60,600 pounds-force thrust. Originally developed for the Lockheed L-1011 , it entered service in 1972 and was the only engine to power this aircraft type... |
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Rolls Royce Heritage Centre, Derby. DE24 8BJ | The RB211 is the first, and at present the only, three-shaft, high bypass ratio aero engine in the world to go into production. 25 years on, it is still setting new standards of reliability and durability. |
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Eugen Langen Eugen Langen was a German entrepreneur, engineer and inventor, involved in the development of the petrol engine and the Wuppertal monorail. In 1857 he worked in his father's sugar factory, JJ Langen & Söhne, after an extensive technical training at the Polytechnic institute in Karlsruhe.-Otto and... Engine |
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University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham. NG7 2RD | This engine (Nº379) c1872 is one of about 1,300 built by Crossley Brothers, Manchester to a Nikolaus August Otto design patented in 1866. It is an example of the first commercially successful internal combustion engine which was introduced at the 1867 Paris Exhibition. |
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Channel Tunnel The Channel Tunnel is a undersea rail tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent in the United Kingdom with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais near Calais in northern France beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover. At its lowest point, it is deep... and Eurostar Eurostar Eurostar is a high-speed railway service connecting London with Paris and Brussels. All its trains traverse the Channel Tunnel between England and France, owned and operated separately by Eurotunnel.... |
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Channel Tunnel - Folkstone, Kent. Eurostar - Waterloo Station, London. (Eurostar has now relocated to St Pancras Station, London) | The Channel Tunnel is one of the most advanced and largest engineering projects of its type. It carries both conventional trains and vehicle shuttles and has reduced the time to cross the Channel to minutes rather than hours. |
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Kew Bridge Steam Museum Kew Bridge Steam Museum houses a museum of water supply and a collection of water pumping steam engines. The museum is an Anchor Point of ERIH, The European Route of Industrial Heritage... |
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Kew Bridge Steam Museum, Green Dragon Lane, Brentford, Middlesex. TW8 0EN | Unique in its approach to the preservation of water pumping equipment, in particular the original installations of five famous Cornish beam engines. |
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Throughout Nottingham | The Nottingham Combined Heating and Power Scheme is the first in the UK to produce commercial electricity and hot water for community heating by the efficient incineration of refuse. Reducing refuse to sterile, inert residue and extending the life of landfill sites are additional environmental and economic benefits of the scheme. |
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SS Great Britain SS Great Britain was an advanced passenger steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic service between Bristol and New York. While other ships had previously been built of iron or equipped with a screw propeller, Great Britain was the first... |
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Great Western Dock, Gasferry Road, Bristol. BS1 6TY | An outstanding example of IK Brunel’s innovative design that made a significant contribution to society and mechanical engineering. It was the first iron-hulled, screw-propelled vessel to cross any ocean. It was conceived as a key element in the integrated transport system from London to the New World. |
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William Dent Priestman William Dent Priestman, born in 1847 near Kingston upon Hull was a Quaker and engineering pioneer, inventor of the Priestman Oil Engine, and co-founder with his brother Samuel of the Priestman Brothers engineering company, manufacturers of cranes, winches and excavators.-Biography:William along... |
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Streetlife Museum, High Street, Kingston upon Hull. HU1 1PS | William Dent Priestman (1847–1936) patented in 1885 an internal combustion engine to burn fuels heavier than petrol. Introduced in 1886, it was the first successful engine of its type in the United Kingdom. The quality of his mechanical engineering has lasted. |
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Sheffield Forgemasters, Brightside Lane, Sheffield. S9 2RX | The world’s first cast steel node made in 1978 at the nearby foundry of River Don Castings, now part of Sheffield Forgemasters. Used to join the tubulars of offshore oil platforms, the design in cast steel represented a significant milestone for both the development of casting technology and offshore structures. |
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CFD CFD may refer to:Science and computing* Computational fluid dynamics, a branch of fluid dynamics* Counterfactual definiteness, the ability, quantum mechanics, to consider results of unperformed measurements* Cfengine Daemon, the process that runs Cfengine... Software |
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ANSYS UK, Sheffield Business Park, 6 Europa View, Sheffield. S9 1XH | Awarded in recognition of the significant impact of the Fluent CFD software (Releases 1–5, 1983 to 1998) on knowledge, excellence and innovation in mechanical engineering, and for its resultant contribution to the health and well-being of society, the economy and the environment. |
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Jubilee Line Extension The Jubilee Line Extension is the extension of the London Underground Jubilee line from to through south and east London. An eastward extension of the Jubilee line was first proposed in the 1970s and a modified route was constructed during the 1990s... |
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Plaque located at Canary Wharf Underground Station, Canary Wharf, London. | In recognition of the numerous features contributing to passenger safety and access on the Jubilee Line Extension, exemplifying the continuous innovation in London’s Underground system from its inception in 1863. |
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Bessemer process The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron. The process is named after its inventor, Henry Bessemer, who took out a patent on the process in 1855. The process was independently discovered in 1851 by William Kelly... |
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Kelham Island Industrial Museum, Alma Street, Sheffield. S3 8RY | In recognition of the outstanding contribution to the steel industry by Sir Henry Bessemer through his invention of the Bessemer Process for steelmaking as embodied in this last remaining example of the Bessemer Converter. |
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Float glass Float glass is a sheet of glass made by floating molten glass on a bed of molten metal, typically tin, although lead and various low melting point alloys were used in the past. This method gives the sheet uniform thickness and very flat surfaces. Modern windows are made from float glass... |
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Pilkington Group Limited, Prescott Road, St. Helems, Merseyside. WA10 3TT | Invented by Sir Alastair Pilkington and his team of engineers, scientists and production workers in 1953 at Pilkington Brothers, St Helens. This process has revolutionised window and automotive glass production throughout the world since the 1960s. |
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Joseph Bramah Joseph Bramah , born Stainborough Lane Farm, Wentworth, Yorkshire, England, was an inventor and locksmith. He is best known for having invented the hydraulic press... |
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Kelham Island Museum, Alma Street, Sheffield. S3 8RY | Presented in recognition of the outstanding contribution to mechanical engineering made by Joseph Bramah in laying the foundations of fluid power engineering, as embodied in this last remaining example of a Bramah Hydraulic Press. |
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Anson Engine Museum, Anson Road, Poynton, Cheshire. SK12 1TD | The Gardner 4L2 engine was the first consistently reliable, high-speed direct injection diesel engine. Its fuel efficiency, total reliability and longevity were to transform road transport. | |
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Robert Stephenson and Company Robert Stephenson and Company was a locomotive manufacturing company founded in 1823. It was the first company set up specifically to build railway engines.- Foundation and early success :... |
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The Stephenson Works, 20 South Street, Newcastle upon Tyne. NE1 3PE (public access ceased in 2009) | The Stephenson Works on South Street in Newcastle housed the world’s first purpose-built locomotive works. These buildings were the birth of the steam locomotive, which revolutionised the railway industry worldwide. |
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Motorsport and Aviation Museum, Brooklands Road, Weybridge, Surrey. KT13 0QN | The Wellington, with its unique geodetic structure designed by Sir Barnes Wallis, was the most technically advanced of the new generation of RAF bombers developed in the mid 1930s. It served throughout World War Two and pioneered many features used in later designs. | |
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Kew Bridge Steam Museum Kew Bridge Steam Museum houses a museum of water supply and a collection of water pumping steam engines. The museum is an Anchor Point of ERIH, The European Route of Industrial Heritage... |
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Kew Bridge Steam Museum, Green Dragon Lane, Brentford, Middlesex. TW8 0EN | The largest engine of its type in existence and the only example still in its original location. The design was developed by Edward Bull in the 1790s and subsequently by Harvey and Company in Cornwall. |
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Didcot Railway Centre, Didcot Parkway Station, Oxfordshire. OX11 7NJ | For its work in preserving and recreating the heritage of the Great Western Railway, allowing future generations to enjoy the work of Brunel, Gooch and Churchward, to participate and to learn engineering skills. | |
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Garratt A Garratt is a type of steam locomotive that is articulated in three parts. Its boiler is mounted on the centre frame, and two steam engines are mounted on separate frames, one on each end of the boiler. Articulation permits larger locomotives to negotiate curves and lighter rails that might... |
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Ffestiniog Railway, Harbour Station, Porthmadog, Gwynedd. LL49 9NF | Built in 1909 to HW Garratt’s patent, the first of over 1,000 Garratt-type articulated locomotives exported from Manchester to all corners of the world. They gave reliable service in some of the most remote places on Earth. |
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English Electric Lightning The English Electric Lightning is a supersonic jet fighter aircraft of the Cold War era, noted for its great speed and unpainted natural metal exterior finish. It is the only all-British Mach 2 fighter aircraft. The aircraft was renowned for its capabilities as an interceptor; Royal Air Force ... |
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BAE Systems, Warton Aerodrome, Preston. PR4 1AX | The first and only all-British fully supersonic fighter aircraft type. In frontline service with the RAF 1960–1988, a record for a fighter jet. |
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JCB Dieselmax The JCB Dieselmax is a diesel-engined 'Streamliner' car designed for the purpose of breaking the land speed record for a diesel-engined vehicle.The car was built for JCB... |
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Anson Engine Museum, Anson Road, Poynton, Cheshire. SK12 1TD | One of the pair of JCB444-LSR engines that powered the JCB Dieselmax Car to a speed of 350.092 mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats on 23 August 2006. Presented in recognition of its success in setting the FIA international record for diesel-powered cars. |
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Crossness Pumping Station Crossness Pumping Station was a sewage pumping station designed by engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette and architect Charles Henry Driver. It was constructed between 1859 and 1865 as part of his redevelopment of the London sewerage system... and James Watt Beam Engines Beam engine A beam engine is a type of steam engine where a pivoted overhead beam is used to apply the force from a vertical piston to a vertical connecting rod. This configuration, with the engine directly driving a pump, was first used by Thomas Newcomen around 1705 to remove water from mines in Cornwall... |
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The Crossness Engines Trust, The Old Works, Crossness Sewage Treatment Works, Belvedere Road, Abbey Wood, London. SE2 9AQ | Presented for its work on the restoration of the 1865 Engine House and the James Watt Rotative Beam Engines, which, with the pumps, were a key part of Joseph Bazalgette’s sewage system that rid London of cholera and typhoid. |
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Bombe The bombe was an electromechanical device used by British cryptologists to help decipher German Enigma-machine-encrypted signals during World War II... |
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Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes. MK3 6ED | Rebuilt in 2007 using the original blueprints. An electromechanical device designed by A Turing, G Welshman and H Keen, used in cracking the German Enigma code during the Second World War. The 200 Bombes built by the British Tabulating Machine Company played a pivotal role in winning the war. |
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Perkins Heritage Center, Perkins Engines, Frank Perkins Way, Peterborough. PE1 5NA | Perkins Wolf. Designer: CW Chapman. The first high speed diesel engine. The Wolf with its patented Perkins Aeroflow combustion system could run at 3,000rpm and was available for light truck and passenger car conversions from 1933. The success of Perkins Engines was founded upon this engine. |
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LNER Peppercorn Class A1 60163 Tornado 60163 Tornado is a main-line steam locomotive built in Darlington, England. Completed in 2008, Tornado was the first such locomotive built in the United Kingdom since Evening Star, the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, in 1960... (Tornado: 60163) |
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National Railway Museum, leeman Road, York. YO26 4XJ | Tornado – A1 Pacific Locomotive. Designer: AH Peppercorn. Completed in 2008 using a blend of traditional and modern engineering skills, Tornado is the first mainline steam locomotive to be built in this country since 1960. The A1 Pacifics were the last LNER express passenger design, able to run 118,000 miles between repairs. None were preserved at the end of steam. |
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Boulton and Watt The firm of Boulton & Watt was initially a partnership between Matthew Boulton and James Watt.-The engine partnership:The partnership was formed in 1775 to exploit Watt's patent for a steam engine with a separate condenser. This made much more efficient use of its fuel than the older Newcomen engine... |
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The Science Museum, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London. SW7 2DD | Power for the Industrial Revolution. In recognition of James Watt’s improvements to the steam engine. ‘Old Bess’ was built by Boulton and Watt in 1777 and used to power their Soho Manufactory until 1848. This engine was the precursor of much of the power-generating plant on show in the Museum and is the oldest surviving of Watt’s engines. |
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Battle of Britain Memorial Flight The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight is a Royal Air Force flight which provides an aerial display group comprising an Avro Lancaster, a Supermarine Spitfire and a Hawker Hurricane... |
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Royal Air Force, Coningsby, Lincolnshire. LN4 4SY | The Avro Lancaster, Hawker Hurricanes and Supermarine Spitfires of this Flight are a tribute to the airmen who lost their lives in the service of this country and an inspiration to all. |
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Kempton Park Steam Engines The Kempton Park Steam Engines are two large triple-expansion steam engines, dating from 1926–1929, at the Kempton Park waterworks, Middlesex, London. Each engine is of a similar size to that used in RMS Titanic and rated at about 1008 hp... |
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Kempton Park Water Treatment Works, Snakey Lane, Hanworth, Middlesex TW13 6XH | Designed by the Metropolitan Water Board under the direction of Henry Stilgoe. These two triple expansion engines were manufactured by Worthington-Simpson at Newark-on-Trent and commissioned in 1928. They provided clean water to the people of London for 50 years. Engine No. 6 (known as The William Prescott) is the largest working steam engine in the World. |
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Bristol Proteus |-See also:-Bibliography:* Gunston, Bill. World Encyclopedia of Aero Engines. Cambridge, England. Patrick Stephens Limited, 1989. ISBN 1-85260-163-9* Hooker, Sir Stanley. Not Much Of An Engineer. Airlife Publishing, 1985. ISBN 1853102857.... |
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Internal Fire Museum of Power, Castell Pridd, Tanygroes, Ceredigion. SA43 2JS | Powered by the Bristol Siddeley Proteus engine and conceived by A N Irens, this 3MW unit was commissioned in 1959. It pioneered the concept of unmanned power stations and the use of lightweight gas turbines for power generation. This is the only operational set on public display in the world. |
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Ricardo, Shoreham Technical Centre, Shoreham by Sea, West Sussex. BN4 5FG | This four-stroke stratified charge engine, designed by Sir Harry Ricardo at the age of 17, was built in 1903 and used for pumping water at his family home. Its success encouraged Sir Harry to a lifetime of engine design and development. President of the IMechE in 1944, his thoughts and inventions still contribute to the success of Ricardo today. |
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Bluebell Railway The Bluebell Railway is a heritage line running for nine miles along the border between East and West Sussex, England. Steam trains are operated between and , with an intermediate station at .The railway is managed and run largely by volunteers... |
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Sheffield Park Station, East Sussex. TN22 3QL | The first preserved standard gauge passenger railway in Great Britain, running its first train in August 1960. The Bluebell Railway has impressive workshop facilities and is committed to preserving and developing the rolling stock, infrastructure, skills and atmosphere of a working steam railway. |
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Claymills pumping station Claymills Pumping Station is a restored Victorian sewage pumping station on the north side of Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England. It was designed by James Mansergh and used to pump sewage to the sewage farm at Etwall.... |
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station, Meadow Lane, Stretton, Burton on Trent,Staffordshire. DE13 0DA | Awarded to the Claymills Pumping Engines Trust for their restoration of Britain's most complete example of a Victorian sewage pumping station. From 1885 to 1971 this site dealt with the effluent from Burton upon Trent's brewing industry. Among its many treasures is the oldest working steam driven dynamo in the country. |
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Queen Street Mill Queen Street Mill is in Harle Syke, a suburb to the north-east of Burnley, Lancashire. It was built in 1894 for The Queen Street Manufacturing Company. It closed on 12th March 1982 and was mothballed... |
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Queen Street Mill Textile Museum, Queen Street, Harle Syke, Burnley, Lancashire. BB10 2HX | This horizontal tandem compound condensing engine was built by W Roberts and Sons of Nelson in 1894 and powered the mill until Queen Street Manufacturing Company closed down in 1982. Now 'Peace' is preserved and can be seen working in her original location. |
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HMS Belfast, Morgan's Lane, Tooley Street, London. SE1 2JH | Launched in 1938 at Harland & Wolff, the only surviving major Royal navy warship from WWII. Four 20,000hp steam turbines, a speed of 32 knots, twelve 6 inch guns and displacing 11,500 tons; HMS Belfast’s success in battle is a tribute to her sound design and the skill and courage of her crew. |
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Quarry Bank Mill Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire, England, is one of the best preserved textile mills of the Industrial Revolution and is now a museum of the cotton industry. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building.-Water mill:... |
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Quarry Bank Mill and Styal Estate, Styal, Wilmslow, Cheshire. SK9 4LA | A unique collection of working textile and power machinery enabling visitors to experience the whole process from spinning raw cotton to weaving finished cloth. Quarry Bank Mill is a site of educational importance, providing a link for the children of today with children of a bygone era. |
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Bursledon Brickworks Industrial Museum, Swanwick Lane, Swanwick. SO31 7GW | The steam driven extrusion plant was installed in 1897 and operated for over 70 years. Restored by the Hampshire Buildings Preservation Trust, this is thought to be the only working example in the country. Brick making machinery such as this was key to the expansion of our towns and cities. |
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Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Haslar Jetty Road, Gosport, Hampshire. PO12 2AS | Built by Vickers Maxim at Barrow-in-Furness and launched in 1901, this pioneer submarine was powered by a 160hp petrol engine and had a surface speed of 8 knots. A 70hp electric motor gave a submerged speed of 7 knots. Holland 1 was the Royal navy's first operational submarine. |
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Royal Arsenal The Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, originally known as the Woolwich Warren, carried out armaments manufacture, ammunition proofing and explosives research for the British armed forces. It was sited on the south bank of the River Thames in Woolwich in south-east London, England.-Early history:The Warren... |
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The Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, London. SE18 6ST | The Royal Arsenal produced much of the armaments required by this country during the growth of the British Empire and through two World Wars. Many important mechanical innovations were developed by the first Chief Mechanical Engineer, Sir John Anderson (1814-1886), Vice President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. |
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PS Waverley PS Waverley is the last seagoing passenger carrying paddle steamer in the world. Built in 1946, she sailed from Craigendoran on the Firth of Clyde to Arrochar on Loch Long until 1973... |
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PS Waverley A & J Inglis Ltd - Glasgow Built in 1946 for the London & North Eastern Railway, Waverley is the last seagoing paddle steamer in the world. She has a displacement of 693 tons and Rankin & Blackmore triple expansion steam engine producing 2100 ihp at 58 rpm. In acceptance trials she achieved a speed of 18 knots. |
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Avro Vulcan XH558 Avro Vulcan XH558 The Spirit Of Great Britain is the only airworthy example of the 134 Avro Vulcan V-bombers that were operated by the Royal Air Force from 1953 until 1984. Vulcan XH558 served with the RAF between 1960 and 1985 in the bomber, maritime reconnaissance and air-to-air refuelling roles... (Vulcan to the Sky Trust) |
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Avro Vulcan XH558 Designed by Roy Chadwick and Stuart Davies The last airworthy representative of the RAF's V-bomber fleet, the British strategic deterrent from 1955 to 1969, the Vulcan is a stirring example of British leadership in aviation. XH558 was in service until 1993 and is powered by four Rolls-Royce Olympus engines. |
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Talyllyn Railway The Talyllyn Railway is a narrow-gauge preserved railway in Wales running for from Tywyn on the Mid-Wales coast to Nant Gwernol near the village of Abergynolwyn. The line was opened in 1866 to carry slate from the quarries at Bryn Eglwys to Tywyn, and was the first narrow gauge railway in Britain... |
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Talyllyn Railway Opened in 1866, the Talyllyn Railway is the oldest continuously operated narrow gauge railway in Britain. In 1951 it became the world's first volunteer operated preserved railway. At 7.25 miles long and with a gauge of 2 feet and 3 inches, the Talyllyn Railway is an important part of Welsh industrial heritage. |
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Alstom Alstom is a large multinational conglomerate which holds interests in the power generation and transport markets. According to the company website, in the years 2010-2011 Alstom had annual sales of over €20.9 billion, and employed more than 85,000 people in 70 countries. Alstom's headquarters are... Power, Willans Works, Newbold Road, Rugby. CV21 2NH |
Central Valve Steam Engine Willans & Robinson Built in 1901 at Rugby, this 140hp three crank compound engine was in service for 57 years. Willans engines ran at 350 to 500rpm and could be direct-coupled to generators. In 1892 they accounted for 68% of all electricity generated in Britain, dominating this market until the advent of steam turbines. |
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Jaguar E-type The Jaguar E-Type or XK-E is a British automobile, manufactured by Jaguar between 1961 and 1975. Its combination of good looks, high performance, and competitive pricing established the marque as an icon of 1960s motoring... |
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Jaguar E-type Designed by Malcolm Sayer under the direction of Sir William Lyons (HonFIMechE) the Jaguar E-type is a direct descendant of the cars which won five Le Mans 24 hour races during the 1950s. It introduced breakthrough motor engineering technology such as the combined monocoque-spaceframe which in later years was adopted by Formula one. |