Lowca Foundry
From Graces Guide
1763 The Lowca Foundry was established to make cannon for local merchant ships[1], presumably by Thomas Heslop
c.1790 Whilst working in Shropshire, Adam Heslop invented a form of atmospheric engine which competed with the Watt engine for many years in the North of England. The engine had a "hot" (i.e. above atmospheric pressure) cylinder at one end of the beam and a condensing cylinder at the other[2]. Several winding engines were built in Northumberland and Cumberland[3] Received support from his employer William Reynolds[4]
1790 Heslop patented the winding engine
c.1795 Heslop and Milward built an engine at Seaton Iron Works, Workington, for the Kells Pit[5]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The Cumbria Coastal Way, by Ian Brodie, Krysia Brodie
- ↑ The pre-Natal history of the Steam Engine, in Clerks and Craftsmen in China and the West by Joseph Needham
- ↑ The Coal Industry of the Eighteenth Century, by Thomas Southcliffe Ashton, Joseph Sykes
- ↑ Archaeology and conservation in Ironbridge, by Richard Hayman, Wendy Horton, Shelley White, Council for British Archaeology, 1999
- ↑ Whitehaven - a short history by Daniel Hay, Whitehaven, 1966