The Waverley Engine Room

The engine room of the last ocean going paddle-steamer

[@zemanzee8949]

I remember when i was a kid, went on a cruise down the hudson on the Alexander Hamilton,, they had windows to the engine room like this, never forget it.

[@Davett53]

Yeah. When I was kid growing up in Cleveland, Ohio.... (1960s, & 70s) they still ran a paddle wheelers on Lake Erie. Some operated in the summer, to take people to Cedar Point, where there was an amusement park, on a peninsula jutting out into the lake. Others took people to Ontario, Canada,...which wasn't that far across the lake from Cleveland. Cincinnati may still operate paddle wheelers, presently. I loved watching how they worked, and they always had windows into those engine & piston rooms.

[@sky173]

Reminds me of way back in the early 80's, Boblo Island Amusement Park was a popular attraction. The boats that took us there had huge engines similar to this that were open to viewing. Great times. Great video.

[@dannyserge9982]

Toujours impressionnantes, ces machines à vapeur. L'absence de carénage et de carter permet d'en voir tout le mécanisme, contrairement aux moteurs à explosion.

[@rogerwilliams2902]

My father was on the original Waveley when it became a target and sunk by German bombers in WW2 . He never spoke much about it , but one thing he did say was the sailor sending a signal " I am sinking " !. Dad used to be a radio operator before the war and he could therefor read morse.

[@tracynation2820]

Super. 💙 T.E.N.

[@Davett53]

Only recently have I begun to study "steam powered" factory equipment,....as I am writing a story about it, ( for my own pleasure). I alway thought they had giant steam engines like from a locomotive, and maybe they did initially,....but they also had small ones in every workroom, of a factory. They had boilers in the basements, that sent steam, to smaller piston driven machinery at each work station. Like to power grinders, or drill presses, and small table saws. Belt driven equipment was at the heart of it.

[@nos9784]

Generally, you had one big engine at a factory hall that drove equipment via overhead transmission shafts. To turn a machine on or off, you would often move a flat belt between a pulley fixed to the shaft and a "freewheel" pulley right next to it. I have a few older books, the stuff is fascinating! Incidentally, this is also where quite a few buffalo hides ended up... as driving belts for european industralisation. I have heard about additional smaller engines in some contexts, like capstans on ships or one to turn over a big engine in order to get lubrication everywhere when you wanted to start it. But generally, shafts and pulleys are much cheaper than individual engines. This was true even in places where electric power was used- i have seen a photo of a single big 50kw motor driving a hall of machines in one of my books. Individual electric motors seem to have slowly taken over between the two world wars.

[@goldenretriever6440]

Reminds me of the Engine room of the Titanic

[@user-fy7ie8rv7v]

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[@tylerblondis4800]

think they would fix the loose rod bearing ...... only a good mechanic would know what I just said .....

[@stuartbarrett4632]

Little end or big end?

[@keithammleter3824]

My ears tell me there is more than one double thud per turn. You hear the one nearest the camera mike more. Guess there is more than one loose rod bearing. There always seems to be a periodic thud/knock in KZbin videos of old marine steam engines. Maybe its because they are cold, and stop thudding after the engine has been running a while.