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Brunton's Steam Engine "Walking"
<space=1em><b>"Walking Steam Locomotive"</b>
<space=1em>"Mechanical Traveler", also known as "Walking Steam Locomotive", also known as "Steam <nobr>horse" — this was the name of one of the designs that preceded the classic steam locomotive.
<space=1em>In <nobr>1813</nobr> the English engineer William Brunton patented his invention (patent <nobr>№ 3700</nobr>), and soon a steam locomotive was built at the Butterley Company factories (Derbyshire), where the inventor worked. The inventor attempted to compensate for the lack of adhesion of smooth wheels to the rails by using two mechanical <nobr>"legs" —</nobr> special supports with flexible joints that alternately clung to the track and, like two boat hooks, pushed the locomotive forward.
<space=1em><b>Design</b>
<space=1em>The locomotive had two axles, a horizontal steam boiler, and one steam cylinder on the side, which, through a lever transmission and a horizontal gear wheel, set in motion two mechanical "legs" behind the locomotive, which were rods with flexible joints. These legs alternately grabbed the track and pushed the locomotive forward. The total weight of the locomotive was about <nobr>2.5 tons.</nobr> The locomotive could reach a speed of <nobr>5 km/h.</nobr>
<space=1em>In <nobr>1814</nobr> a second, more powerful machine weighing <nobr>5 tons was built.</nobr> This locomotive pulled wagons with limestone during the construction of the Amber Wharf, which was located on the Cromforth Canal, but the owners of the construction site were unhappy with the locomotive because its speed did not exceed <nobr>4.5 km/h.</nobr>
<space=1em><b>A New Solution</b>
<space=1em>As a result of testing, Brunton's "Mechanical Traveler" design was not useful, since towing or breaking the adhesion between the wheels and the rails was avoided by achieving sufficient adhesion weight. In other words, the sum of the masses that falls on each driving wheel of the locomotive.
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Модель (деталка):
Brunton's Steam Engine "Walking"
Заголовок (деталка):
Steam locomotive
Mnemonic code:
270
Code in external DB source:
18488
Name:
Brunton's Steam Engine "Walking"