You would be hard pressed to find a green field within the Township of Eccleshill these days.

Hmmmmmmm.... I would find your observations difficult to argue with Paul. ;)

If I'm still around Chris, that would be nice to see ;)

@@MybitofHistory You better be...

Errrrmmmmmm..... Clearly you jest Mark..... Home of the Bronte Sisters ;)

@@MybitofHistory No idea. I'm never read the books. Plus don't watch TV. Just looked them up on wiki. I see now....

You're works not bad either ;)

Aye... 10 years ago.... Seems like only yesterday, but a sad reminder of the times I could walk further than 20 yards or a flight of stairs without needing a 20 minute rest ;)

Same day Chris - the sites are along the Hope Valley - Castleton is a great place to spend a couple of days - and a visit to the Devils Arse is a must ;)

@@MybitofHistory Wow that was a busy flight day, I've taken note, and I am looking for areas close to me, but it's a challenge...

@@AllMy78s - This was also one of the trips I was going to take you on last year ;)

@@MybitofHistory that's it make me feel bad again, lol...

@@AllMy78s - You're welcome ;)

Only of interest to those within the locality and the online History FB page I run for Eccleshill. That said, I did visit your KZbin site and was astonished to find ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for such an opioninate individual. Whereas, my KZbin site is PACKED SOLID with videos I have produced down the years and are appreciated around the world with request for use in Universities and TV stations etc.

@@MybitofHistory Just my opinion, I won’t trouble you in the future.

@@dennisammann9104 Promise !!!!!! ;)

@@MybitofHistory I promise. 😟 England is my favorite country. 👍 I wish you all the best. 🙂

Are they about to be demolished as well? Only kidding ;) The fact is, the area is within the No Flight Zone for Leeds & Bradford Airport - Yeah I know - like it's several kilometres away. I do do this commercially, so it's finding the time - but who knows - the footage can always be used in the History FB Page I run ;)

Certainly not a green space - though developers fail to recognise that whole area below is packed with old mine shafts and coal gallaries. Front doors and Windows - Cheapest Bradford Council could find - It's going to cost more getting rid of them - I proposed them being used as a Migrant Centre prior to demolition - not accepted ;) I'm a paid up Memeber of GB News ;)

@@MybitofHistory Sounds like they took a risk building there in the first place. Your proposal would have been cost effective too! 😇😁 GB News... one of seemingly endless controlled opposition. People should realise by now, that there are no political solutions to our problems. The system is not designed for that. It was put there to keep the public in a sheep pen, that they can never escape from.

You can always try eating carrots, be born with damn good eyesight (as I was), or fit a decent strobe light.

Paul.... Only you and I can ever appreciate lumpy milk ;)

Hope you enjoy the vidoe I produced about Trevithicks other road engine - The Puffing Devil ;) kzbin.info/www/bejne/eonOn4OJmMl3gMU

I can't recall anywhere in the history books / accounts of James Watt ever having the imagination to stick 4 wheels to a steam engine.... I thought you would have nown that ;)

James Watt was too busy INVENTING the Steam Engine! Watt was long dead and gone before we got a practical Locomotive, so he was proved right.

Because he didn’t. Watt, as is well documented, wanted nothing to do with what he termed ‘strong steam’, or high pressure steam. His huge stationary engines worked somewhere around 10-15 psi, and relied on condensing the steam to create a partial vacuum in order to get useful work done. What he actually invented was the separate condenser, which increased the thermal efficiency of the low-pressure engine that had already been invented, in a crude form, by Thomas Newcomen in 1712, 24 years before Watt was born. Watt died in 1819 at the age of 83, 18 years after Trevithick built Puffing Devil, and 16 years after the first locomotive ran on rails in 1803.

Newcomen's Atmospheric Pumps disappeared when Watt's Steam Pumps appeared and Arkwright's Water-Power disappeared when Watt's Steam Engines appeared. Newcomen's Pump supplied Atmospheric Power. Watt's Pumps and Engines supplied Steam Power. Atmospheric Pressure opposes a Steam Engine. Watt's separate condenser on his new engines recycled hot water and eliminated 14.7 psi of opposition from Atmospheric Pressure, with the vacuum created by condensation.

Not quite.. Newcomer’s engine also relied on condensing the steam to create a vacuum beneath the piston, which means that the atmospheric pressure becomes the main motive force, and the same is true for Watt’s engines. The main difference between the two is that Newcomen injected cold water directly into the cylinder to achieve this, and as a result the entire mass of the piston and cylinder needed to cool to the point of condensation, meaning that the next cycle had to waste a tremendous amount heat energy from the incoming steam to re-heat the cylinder before condensation would cease and the upward stroke could commence. This gave the Newcomen engine a phenomenally low fuel efficiency, or ‘duty’ as it was termed at the time. By creating a separate condenser that could be kept at an even temperature at all times, Watt effectively eliminated this cyclical waste of energy, as the cylinder and piston could be kept hot throughout the cycle, thus achieving a significant increase in efficiency. Although many new engines were built at the Soho foundry, Watt’s business model was nonetheless heavily dependent on the fitting of this separate condenser to a large number of existing Newcomen engines, and profiting by taking a share for themselves every year of the savings that were gained from this increased fuel efficiency, a policy that became increasingly unpopular in Cornwall. However, these were still low pressure engines, and still wildly inefficient when compared to the compact high pressure direct-acting engines of Trevithick, operating at 50lb to the square inch, a fact that was proved when a Soho built engine was trialled head to head with a Trevithick ‘puffer’ to see which did the greater amount of work for a given consumption of coal, and lost quite unequivocally. Watt undoubtedly contributed a great deal to the development of the steam engine and the understanding of its thermodynamic performance, and deserves to be recognised as such, but ultimately he is part of a much wider and more complex narrative, which still seems to be blurred by his somewhat litigious nature and an unfortunate tendency to engineer his own legacy.

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Glad you found it of interest ;)

Glad you enjoyed - hope you get to build one ;)

You're welcome ;)

Themselves - First and always ;)

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