Museum vapor (steam engines) from Kew Bridge actually devoted to the history of water supply and even London. But the charm of exposed here puffing, puffing steam and the twisting of the dinosaurs is so great that the call from the British Museum, another must not turn language.

The first is suitable for practical application of the steam engine created in 1712 by an English blacksmith Thomas Newcomen. Britain by the time the engine is badly in need of mechanical looms, pumping water out of mines, transportation of goods. In 1782, James Watt improved Newcomen machine, and in 1812 on the River Clyde swam the first British ship. In 1830, the first railroad connected the Manchester and Liverpool. British engineering was the best in the world. The country is on a century break into the leaders of the industrial revolution.

Steam engines of the era of today bears little resemblance to avtomobilchikov engine under the hood. It was a hot swinger with rotating cast iron flywheels and move up and down rods. One such monster machine "Grand Junction" with a piston diameter of 100 inches (more than 2, 5 meters!), Is a special pride of the museum: it is the largest surviving single cylinder steam engine in the world. It was built in 1869 and regularly worked, shaking the water, until the forties of the XX century.

Monster height of three floors located in a former pumping station, which since 1838 is supplied with water in West London - now a museum. Here is one of the world's largest collection of steam engines, nearly all of them - in working condition. The oldest steam engine museum built in Birmingham in 1820. You can then, however, admire and rarity of earlier eras: the present water wheel with a diameter of six meters - are in England led by a machine before the era of steam.

Steam engine - a fascinating spectacle. Around the museum is laid for a tiny narrow-gauge railway locomotive "Thomas Wicksteed" - and it's not a toy, but a fully working machine, some had a lot of hydraulic structures on the Victorian era. But the true greatness of this technique helps to realize the enormous steam pumps run Cornish happening here once a month. Cranks majestic cast iron flywheels, silently go shiny grease rods - a real feast steampunk! The museum offers connoisseurs even parties in the steam room: cocktails, snacks, flowers, and around silently working mighty giants forever bygone era.