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IT is with pleasure we learn that the Cornish Engines Preservation Committee has been successful in acquiring the early winding engine at Levant Mine in Cornwall, and in leasing for a small acknowledgment rent the engine house. Levant and the adjoining Botallack mine were famous for their richness in copper and tin, and for their deep workings, which extended far out under the Atlantic Ocean. The engine at Levant was designed by Francis Michell, and was probably built at the Copperhouse Foundry, Hayle, about one hundred and ten years ago. It is of the beam type with parallel motion, and has a cylinder 24 in. in diameter with a stroke of 4 ft. The total sum raised for its preservation was £130, the greater part of which, says Mr. W. T. Hooper, the honorary secretary of the fund, came from beyond the Tamar. Donations were received from the Institutions of Civil and Mechanical Engineers and the Newcomen Society, and from individuals in India, China, Australia and America. The Committee has in view the preservation of some of the larger pumping engines, and arrangements are now being made to complete the model of the 90 in. pumping engine at East Pool Mine, which was begun by the late Mr. Oswald Swete of Truro.
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Preservation of Cornish Engines. Nature 137, 696 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137696b0
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