As a 78 year old 'live steamer', it does my old heart good to see a young man working on this historic stationary steam engine. Thank you for this video.
@philrowe6894 жыл бұрын
Why in Heaven's name is it felt necessary to have "music'" playing throughout this otherwise excellent video. We're allowed to SEE the engine running, but not HEAR it. It's the sight AND SOUND of steam that is so special. Completely ruins the experience. I wonder what Dr Andrew would think if, at one of his lectures, there was someone with a radio playing music while he was speaking ...
@SteamCrane Жыл бұрын
It's maddening! It would be easy to re-edit the same video with the original sound. Didn't watch it.
@mindeloman4 жыл бұрын
The main oak beam is original from 1779. Makes me wonder how old the oak tree was from which they harvested it.
@killerdeamonking4 жыл бұрын
Most likely 15th \ 16th century trees can live 200-400 years depending on the type of tree and it's environment.
@paullee40334 жыл бұрын
When I was a apprentice in1971 i worked at a agricultural engineering workshop there was a man who allways worked in the work shop called Fred Poole he had worked for Birmingham bus department during the Second World War and after the war had bad health he bought a little cottage just outside Welshpool to convales after a while he got better and worked at our workshop he told me he did his apprenticeship at a place called bellis and morcom in Birmingham who built steam engines I will never forget Fred he taught me a lot of things that people today could not do and I owe him a lot
@bigredc2224 жыл бұрын
Hopefully, you've been able to pass on some of what you've learned to a younger generation.
@artisanwhitehall4 жыл бұрын
We are a dying trade we people who understand massive steam engines.
@tobybrown11793 жыл бұрын
Have you started a channel to teach other from the lost ways? Hope you used some of his knowledge during your career
@remote_photography_services_CO5 жыл бұрын
That is amazing. All of those who worked to preserved this engine deserve a lot of credit.
@johnblackburn22375 жыл бұрын
It is amazing that this engine survives to this day
@renegadeoflife874 жыл бұрын
Yeah, just surviving at all is quite the feat. Most of these engines were replaced by newer designs a century ago and left to rot or dismantled to clear space for other things. But can you imagine anything from today still existing, let alone being in working order, 200 years from now?
@AEKarnes4 жыл бұрын
Great work all of you, a fantastic achievement. Thank you for not being afraid to run this beautiful machine.
@drlegendre4 жыл бұрын
Great job.. replacing a rope packing? All in a day's work 100 years ago.
@donaldasayers4 жыл бұрын
Would prefer to hear the engine not the music.
@christophersmith33762 жыл бұрын
Why did you add clanking sound effects? Would have been great if you let the machines speak for themselves!
@slackalice1004 жыл бұрын
Fantastic piece of Engineering history.
@johndavies92704 жыл бұрын
A wonderful 3 minutes worth of film. I'm delighted to see her running under steam, and know how much of this incredible, historic machine is in fact original. 119 years of duty? That itself is amazing. Thanks for this
@derekferguson3857 ай бұрын
OMG! What is that dreadful music all about. Whoever made the film must have thought the subject was so boring they would have to provide music to keep people awake. 🙄
@SteamCrane Жыл бұрын
Fascinating! Could you post an edit without the music so we can hear the engine? Didn't watch, just skipped through to see if the "music" ever stopped. Thumbs down pending a version with natural sound. Looking forward to it!
@crazyhorsetrading86552 жыл бұрын
brilliant to see this engine so well preserved. Well done to all who where and are looking after this treasure from our past.
@50srefugee6 ай бұрын
Fascinating subject, well presented. HOWEVER: many of us who enjoy videos of machinery, particularly the old historical beasts, want to hear their roars, hisses, and groans, not irrelevant music.
@rustyaxelrod4 жыл бұрын
Fascinating. It’s amazing to think how far we have come in such a short time. The designers and builders of this engine were working with basic principals that still govern such things today. We stand on the shoulders of those who came before and I suspect they would be proud and amazed to see what has been accomplished. I realize steam power is little more than a novelty now but it built an entire country before we moved to internal combustion and electrics and even so, many of the principals still apply.
@bigredc2224 жыл бұрын
Steam is still used very much, all nuclear-powered ships use steam, and nuclear power plants use steam, all coal-burning power plants use steam, the city of New York sells steam to thousands of buildings throughout the city for heating, and thousand of building have boiler plants to make steam to heat them.
@marknerren4024 жыл бұрын
Steam power just went from reciprocating to turbine but is still in wide use.
@williamarmstrong646 Жыл бұрын
But aren't Newcomen engines atmospheric engines, the function of steam being to create a vacuum, air pressure doing the work?
@tonyking203011 ай бұрын
What a wonderful engine, so very nice to see it back in steam!
@dannyhussain54894 жыл бұрын
Phenomenal! I worked and studied at the Assay office, an institute that Matthew Boulton was a core part of!!
@haroldpearson60254 жыл бұрын
The old science museum in Newhall St was much better. It was housed in an old industrial building with many rooms on different levels. Creaky wood floors and passages, subdued lighting. It was a place to explore with a surprise round every corner. It was also free entry!
@paulbrent72934 жыл бұрын
You’re dead right there Harold, the old Science Museum was a place of wonder and awe for me as a kid in the 1950’s. As you say, the layout helped and all the interesting things gave it a great ambience. Yes, it was totally free entry as all museums ought to be, they should be a place of inspiration not a money making enterprise.
@davidcockayne33813 жыл бұрын
Absolutely, the new place is soulless.
@gregorymalchuk2723 жыл бұрын
What happened to the old building?
@Nigel_Gardiner3 жыл бұрын
@@gregorymalchuk272 demolished for posh apartments
@flybobbie14492 жыл бұрын
Spot on, the new one has no soul.
@uncommonsense3605 жыл бұрын
Older than the US
@ddoty20734 жыл бұрын
By a year
@mr.randomgamer8884 жыл бұрын
the fact a machine like this is even comparable just shows how new America really is
@royfearn43454 жыл бұрын
US is nobbut a babby.
@absinthefandubs91303 жыл бұрын
@@mr.randomgamer888 Most European nation-states are way younger but somehow still pride themselves in having millennia of history. As it turns out, patriotism is a cluster of lies people tell themselves to avoid acknowledging they're, well.. people.
@HellenicChivalry10 ай бұрын
It shows how NOT REALLY SPECIAL Watts is. If he hadn't done that, someone else would have.
@robertpatrick33505 ай бұрын
When the engines moved from MSI to Thinktank there was a significant risk that they wouldn’t be able to run on live steam due to cost and would be operated on jockey motors, it required considerable effort to enable sufficient funds were available. Most of the installation work for the engines was undertaken by Heritage engineering of Glasgow…… some of the engines had been in pieces in long term storage which presented significant challenges when being assembled and commissioned.
@StabilisingGlobalTemperature4 ай бұрын
Good to see it working. I would like to have heard it too. A bit of music at intro and exit is fine. But not throughout.
@lewiemcneely91434 жыл бұрын
Just because it's old doesn't mean it's TOO old!
@JungleYT4 жыл бұрын
Well, I hope they took measurements on that Oak beam... Still, I've heard wood from old forests was denser, like Notre Dame that caught fire...
@chrischiampo7647 Жыл бұрын
Really Cool That it’s Still Working 😀😮😮👍🏼
@clottedcreamtea86954 жыл бұрын
I would go to brum just to see that . We have a newcomon engine where i live ,but its running on electric
@dw49562 жыл бұрын
Now thats true sustainability.
@simontaylor23192 жыл бұрын
Nice building Nick
@gillbraund88004 жыл бұрын
Great video, and even now we still use steam to drive turbines to produce electricity after all these years. How good is to know that it's all, even those oak radials, BRITISH....
@thomasburke79954 жыл бұрын
What a fantastic feat .. to make that breath life again .. awsone job.
@Kevin-ix4qz4 жыл бұрын
When they used to build things that last
@TheHunterg305 жыл бұрын
the old science museum was free , now all the machines which were donated ,you now have to pay to see at the so called think tank, parking is ridiculous due to Birmingham's anti car policy
@thomashenderson39014 жыл бұрын
Thanks and noted, I'll plan ahead properly when I go there!
@TonyGilbert14 жыл бұрын
Pay to go in a museum lol work at the Smithsonian there all free to all like every museum should be
@hungryjack80324 жыл бұрын
@@TonyGilbert1 somebody has to pay the bills. You want to see old stuff, you pay to see it.
@TonyGilbert14 жыл бұрын
@@hungryjack8032 that ain't how it works in America
@hungryjack80324 жыл бұрын
@@TonyGilbert1 depends on where in America you are and which museum you go to. Some are pay to enter, others are "free" but supported by local taxpayers. Either way Utilities and taxes need to be paid because electricity is never free here in America.
@Walter-w9vАй бұрын
The Great Improver of Newcomen's Atmospheric Pump was the Great English Civil Engineer John Smeaton. He improved it's efficiency by 25%. But he still lost out to James Watt's newly Invented Steam Pump ( soon to become newly invented Steam Engine, which kicked off the Industrial Revolution and led us into the Modern World ) in the competition between the two.
@andy166665 жыл бұрын
Cool engine.
@malcolmrichards89224 жыл бұрын
Interesting video, but not the world's oldest, and why the silly background music?
@tonytiger754 жыл бұрын
Oldest surviving James Watt engine
@Nigel_Gardiner3 жыл бұрын
Oldest working
@Surga_myth_dewa_real Жыл бұрын
If Mr Savery and Mr Newcomen wasnt invented very first pressure engine.perhaps now i am still care and cleaning the horse pup/feses..thank you very much
@peteacher525 жыл бұрын
What a pity that the interesting content was spoiled by the addition of obtrusive added noise that some call music.
@ravichristian63643 жыл бұрын
very good
@mikego187535 жыл бұрын
heh Jim,that,s fantastic,the oldest.you must be 'chuffed'.
@williambeaumont13123 жыл бұрын
A lot has changed since then.
@Walter-w9vАй бұрын
Britain from 1800 to 1900. 20,000 Waterwheels declined in number. Windmills declined in number. The Englishman Thomas Newcomen's 1,500 Atmospheric Pumps disappeared. The Scotsman James Watt's 500 Steam Engines and they're decendents increased in number to 10,000,000 !!! This WAS the one and only Industrial Revolution. For every single Waterwheel in 1800 we now had 500 Steam Engines in 1900 !!! In the space of one human's lifetime the whole country's source of available Power increased by 500 times !!! And it was all due to only one Invention. James Watt's Invention of the world's first PRACTICAL Steam Powered Engine. All those other Inventions and so called " Industrial Revolutions " ( they're just there to muddy the water's ), were the natural advancement of science and technology, which has been ongoing since we started to use fire. So, a million more Factories for a start, then Steamships and Locomotives etc.etc. The world leapt forward in Technology and Production capacity.
@tobybrown11793 жыл бұрын
Wonder it wasn’t scrapped for the steel during world wars
@hisexcellencytrump8554 жыл бұрын
Engines made today can't get past warranty period
@raymondo1624 жыл бұрын
get a honda m8 !!
@jonksmodels6 ай бұрын
I'm confused when you google "worlds first steam engine", you get 100 different answers?
@mr.slaphappy37943 жыл бұрын
No description?? lol
@jackrm11703 жыл бұрын
I saw Smethwick and thought of Danny G
@billyfoster32233 жыл бұрын
America was still being founded as a country when this engine was new!!😁😁
4 жыл бұрын
Song at the beginning??
@davidaustin21724 жыл бұрын
Just proves how the old stuff lasts, will any stuff built today still be working in 50 years time, never mind 250.
@JJStillOn60FPS4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for helping with hw
@mdtransmissionspecialties2 жыл бұрын
Could you imagine if they restored one of uss Texas’s engines?
@andyjohnson88524 ай бұрын
Interesting video - why the awful music?, background music on scientific programs is not necessary - nor a presenter - just a voice over.
@HellenicChivalry10 ай бұрын
World's oldest steam engine was the Aelopile.
@ЧеркасовДмитрий-п8п4 жыл бұрын
Он талант!
@richardwatts52305 жыл бұрын
ONE TON EVERY MIN.
@drlegendre4 жыл бұрын
He quoted "1500 buckets of water per minute".. whatever that's supposed to mean. Is a bucket some antiquated unit of measurement? Either way, without knowing the height they were raised, we can't calculate the power.
@who-gives-a-toss_Bear2 жыл бұрын
@@drlegendre 1 bucket [UK] = 4 gallon [UK]
@Walter-w9vАй бұрын
Newcomen's machine was designed and built to supply Pumping Atmospheric Power. Watt's machine was designed and built to supply Pumping and Rotary Steam Power. They are two different machines, so they shouldn't have the same name. What's wrong with Atmospheric engine and Steam engine, seems pretty logical to me. I guess when it comes to the Invention of the Steam Engine, and the Industrial Revolution it enabled, logic goes out the window? There's an Industrial Revolution's worth of difference between Newcomen's Atmospheric engine and Watt's Steam engine.
@walterbennie816 Жыл бұрын
More efficient, thermodynamic problems,, steam and steam condensate meeting, improvement, vacuum needed to operate the engine, what a load of bluster! Newcomen's Atmospheric Pump couldn't be improved, even by Watt, it was a 70 years long dead-end. A 100% efficient Atmospheric Newcomen Pump will only give 14.7psi. of Atmospheric Pressure, and we know that's impossible. It would be more like 10 psi. A vacuum isn't needed for a Watt High Pressure Steam Engine to work, straight from Watt's mouth, a condenser is optional. The story of a model Newcomen Atmospheric Pump (true or not) is worth mentioning? The change from Newcomen's Atmospheric Power to Watt's High Pressure Steam Power and his invention of the world's first PRACTICAL High Pressure Steam Engine to achieve that, (the big change) isn't worth mentioning? (as usual). And this is straight from the top man! No wonder us minions don't know any better.
@larsiabobam174 жыл бұрын
Es ist sehr spannend
@trevortrevortsr24 жыл бұрын
It's great that the operators of the engine are young and not made to wear fancy dress garb that is so naff in museums
@richarddefour52204 жыл бұрын
Not the older, haven't you earder of the "Fardier", from Cugnot?
@Nigel_Gardiner3 жыл бұрын
Oldest working
@wattage-uk9zt Жыл бұрын
James Watt didn't improve Newcomen's Atmospheric Pump, it couldn't be improved, even by Watt. James Watt realized Newcomen's Atmospheric Power was the problem. So Watt dumped Newcomen's Atmospheric Power for High Pressure Steam Power. To achieve this he had to INVENT a new engine, the world's first High Pressure Steam Engine. It was nothing to do with efficiency, although it was more efficient. His new engine could work without a separate condenser but it made his engine more efficient by recirculating hot water and eliminating Atmospheric Pressure, which opposes a Steam Engine. Watt's engine didn't need a vacuum to run, straight from Watt's mouth, if you don't have enough cold water for a condenser, just release used Steam to the Atmosphere. Then? An Industrial Revolution! No more Newcomen Atmospheric Pumps or Arkwright's Water-Wheels.
@Zebred20014 жыл бұрын
Bleedin' clever what?
@tunneltug4 жыл бұрын
The worlds oldest steam engine is the Newcomen engine in the Dartmouth Museum one of three built for the Griff Colliery in Warwickshire in 1712, 63 years before this one. This is just "The Oldest James Watt Steam Engine"
@Shadow0fd3ath243 жыл бұрын
Its still the worlds oldest steam engine though, they even said it in the vid. Not historys. Just in the world. Seeing as Newcomen ones arent even extant anymore
@tunneltug3 жыл бұрын
Yes they are existent, the oldest steam engine in the world is on display in Dartmouth and the second oldest is on display in the Henry Ford Museum.
@Nigel_Gardiner3 жыл бұрын
@@tunneltug do they both run as smoothly as this one?
@tunneltug3 жыл бұрын
@@Nigel_Gardiner Who cares? smoothness isn't what is claimed or disputed, it's just as relevant as asking do they both weigh as much as this one
@Nigel_Gardiner3 жыл бұрын
@@tunneltug this is the world's oldest WORKING steam engine. There are a couple of others older but not working. This one works and so is promoted as the oldest working engine. That is why the matter of the engines working is relevent.
@Pocketfarmer1 Жыл бұрын
Was the pump diameter really 90cm? Did Watt work in metric measures?
@philnewcomers9170 Жыл бұрын
where were the first atmosferic steam engine parts made Bristol orColbrookdale that is a much more important question What was an improuver No one has taken this point up Darby and Goldney founded Colbrook dale on the back of Nnewcombes ground breaking invention The other point is when was the pickel pot condencer first made those chaps would have seen the problem and fixed it with the pickel pot ,dont you think ?
@who-gives-a-toss_Bear2 жыл бұрын
Worlds oldest steam engine, so not an atmospheric engine. In 1712 Newcomen invented the world's first successful steam engine. This engine is powered by steam pressure not atmospheric pressure. 2:33 1500 Buckets =166.666’ Barrels = 55.555’ Pipes = 6000 Gallons (UK) =27.27654 Kilolitres. No preservation order on the old museum site, somebody slipped up! Can’t make a profit from FREE. Back to the old days where the rich pricks rule and can buy your seat in the government.