Energy Hall

Atmospheric engine built by Francis Thompson at Oakerthorpe Colliery, Derbyshire, in 1791.

• Atmospheric engine by Francis Thompson, 1791

Parsons' steam turbo-generator, 1891. Until the invention of the steam turbine by Charles Parsons (1854-1931) in 1884, steam engines could not turn fast enough to produce electricity efficiently on a large scale. Used at the Cambridge Electric Light

• Parsons' steam turbine with generator, 1891.

A unique high-pressure steam engine constructed c1806 to Richard Trevithick’s design.

• Trevithick's High Pressure Steam Engine and Boiler, c. 1806

This mill engine drove 1700 power looms for weaving textiles at the same time.

• Mill engine by Burnley Ironworks Company, 1903

One third scale model of a power loom for simple plain weaving made by Messrs. Sevill and Woolstenhulme in 1857. This loom gives the most elementary kind of weaving in which weft crosses over and under the warps alternately and was the type used exte

• Power loom, 1857.

Boulton & Watt rotative engine. Employed at the Soho works of Boulton & Watt, this engine is known as the 'Lap' engine as it drove a number of metal polishing (or 'lapping') machines. It is the oldest surviving Watt beam engine to have survived almos

• Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788.