Day 7: 24 days of Thinktank exhibits. Meet the world's oldest working steam engine - The Smethwick Engine. When James Watt designed the Smethwick Engine in 1778, it was the most efficient engine of the time. It was needed to pump water to the top of the canal locks at Smethwick. When a boat went through the locks, 110,000 litres of water was used Before the engine was installed only 50 boats a week could pass through. It took 35 men, ten months to build the engine and engine house. Assembled on
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Day 7: 24 days of Thinktank exhibits. Meet the world's oldest working steam engine - The Smethwick Engine. When James Watt designed the Smethwick Engine in 1778, it was the most efficient engine of the time. It was needed to pump water to the top of the canal locks at Smethwick. When a boat went through the locks, 110,000 litres of water was used Before the engine was installed only 50 boats a week could pass through. It took 35 men, ten months to build the engine and engine house. Assembled on
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The world's oldest working steam engine is back in action, more than three years after it ran out of steam. The Smethwick Engine was installed on the Birmingham-Wolverhampton canal in 1779, and saved water by pumping it back up a series of canal locks at Smethwick. The engine, designed by Birmingham industrial pioneer James Watt, is now on show at Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum | BBC Birmingham
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The world's oldest working steam engine is back in action, more than three years after it ran out of steam. The Smethwick Engine was installed on the Birmingham-Wolverhampton canal in 1779, and saved water by pumping it back up a series of canal locks at Smethwick. The engine, designed by Birmingham industrial pioneer James Watt, is now on show at Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum | BBC Birmingham
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