Category:Diagonal steam engines

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Steam engines with sloping, upward-pointing cylinders. These were usually used as a means of driving a paddle wheel shaft, whilst keeping a low centre of gravity. Some used paired cylinders as Brunel's "triangle" engine. A few examples were land-based, most were marine.

Subcategories

This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.

H

Historic Wheel, Toowong‎ (3 F)

L

Ship engine of La Suisse (ship, 1910)‎ (5 F)

T

Triangle engines‎ (11 F)

U

Ship engine of Uri (ship, 1901)‎ (3 F)

Media in category "Diagonal steam engines"

The following 13 files are in this category, out of 13 total.

2011-07-23 Lago de Thun (Foto Dietrich Michael Weidmann) 051.JPG 3,872 × 2,592; 4 MB
2011-07-23 Lago de Thun (Foto Dietrich Michael Weidmann) 052.JPG 2,592 × 3,872; 3.5 MB
Diagonal compound paddle engine, jet condensing (Rankin Kennedy, Modern Engines, Vol V).jpg 1,259 × 895; 255 KB
Diagonal compound paddle engine, surface condensing (Rankin Kennedy, Modern Engines, Vol V).jpg 1,242 × 902; 215 KB
Diagonal engine (Rankin Kennedy, Modern Engines, Vol V).jpg 779 × 484; 35 KB
Elberaddampfer Leipzig Maschinenanlage.jpg 2,560 × 1,920; 2.26 MB
Empress Queen's engine..jpg 225 × 157; 10 KB
Hollycombe, paddle steamer engine - geograph.org.uk - 751808.jpg 640 × 430; 113 KB
Maschine Schiller 1.jpg 3,264 × 2,448; 1.8 MB
Maschine Wilhelm Tell.jpg 3,840 × 2,160; 5.45 MB
Maschine-stadt-luzern.ogv 27 s, 1,280 × 720; 30.94 MB
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous (14596981407).jpg 3,008 × 1,664; 745 KB
Unterwalden 2011 5.jpg 3,264 × 2,448; 1.77 MB

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