The Newcomen Beam Engine at Elsecar has been given the grant by the Heritage Lottery Fund. In 2010 English Heritage put the engine as one of 10 key industrial sites on the national at-risk register.

The Newcomen Beam Engine, the oldest steam engine in the world still in its original location, is ready to welcome visitors again after a winter break. Picture Jonathan Gawthorpe.

A listed building in South Yorkshire continues to be one of the most at risk, according to English Heritage. English Heritage listed 10 key industrial sites on the at-risk register which included ...

1664: Thomas Newcomen, creator of the first practical atmospheric steam engine, is born in Devon, England. Newcomen’s exact birth date is a matter of debate. Some sources say “before Feb. 24 ...

Newcomen's engine operated on the same principle, but the vacuum was produced by a beam that moved similarly to a metronome. One end was attached to the valve and the other to the boiler, ...

On the Birmingham print, besides the many printed references at the side of the drawing of the engine, is the significant manuscript note: “The beam vibrates 12 times in a minute and each stroke ...

Work to restore the engine’s house and its mineshaft is set for completion in two months’ time. The 1795-built Newcomen Beam Engine at Elsecar Heritage Centre, near Barnsley ...

The Newcomen Beam Engine was the first practical device to harness the power of steam and kick-started the Industrial Revolution by allowing coal mining to operate on an industrial scale.

That Newcomen but applied the discoveries of others; that he invented neither the cylinder, the piston, the beam, nor the pump incorporated in his engine, detracts nothing from the merits of his ...

An historic pumping engine in South Yorkshire is given over £400,000 for restoration.