Energy

Willams & Robinson high-speed steam engine
Belliss & Morcom Ltd. steam engine
Waterwheel
Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques Belfort alternator
Escuder gas engine
Compartment wheel
Klimov VK-1 turbojet engine
E.B. submarine diesel engine
Pelton turbine wheel
Casanova pulsoreactor replica
  • Compartment wheel

    Compartment wheel

    Record number:  4780
    Date: 1940
    Dimensions: 285 x 262 cm. Diameter: 250 cm

    Large circular wooden wheel, its breadth comprising wooden compartments arranged proportionally around the whole circumference. The central axle is metal, with wooden cross-members running from it to each side of the wheel. On one side there is another smaller wheel used to transmit the energy produced.