steam engine
object, machine, apparatus, tool, technical instrument
A machine for generating kinetic energy from thermal energy by using the force produced by steam pressure to move a piston.
Traveljournal 1794
Traveljournal 1814
- Birmingham’s “Altar to Vulcan”, 27 August 1814
- James Watt gives a tour of his plant and and an invitation to lunch, 28 August 1814
- In Wedgwood’s Etruria Works, 1 September 1814
- Manchester, 2 September 1814
- Travelling on the “Salamanca” to Leeds, 3 September 1814
- Leeds, 4 September 1814
- Cannon casting at the Walker works, 6 September 1814
- Final visits in Paris, 12–17 September 1814
- Exploring the Black Country on horseback with James Watt, 29 August 1814
Traveljournal 1825
- Calais–London, 7 June 1825
- Acquaintance with Jacob Perkins, 10 June 1825
- Visit to Sharp Hill & Comp., 20 June 1825
- Visit to St. George’s Foundry, 20 June 1825
- Visit to the Park Mill textile mill, 27 June 1825
- Visit to the Armsley Watermill textile factory, 28 June 1825
- Visit to the Marshall Mills flax mill, 28 June 1825
- Further factory visits in Sheffield, 30 June 1825
- Further factory visits in Birmingham, 5 July 1825
- Perkin’s steam engine, 9 July 1825
- Further encounters in London, 9 July 1825
- Business opportunities in the London Mint, 11 July 1825
- The adventure with the pocketbook, 12 July 1825
- Visit to the engineering firm of Taylor & Martineau, 15 July 1825
Traveljournal 1825–1827
- Visits on recommendations in London, 20 October 1825
- Perkins demonstrates the high pressure steam engine, 27 September 1827
- Peruvian steel and a visit to Sanderson and Huntsman, 5 October 1827
- Fischer procures specialist literature, 10 October 1827
- London Steelworks and a so-called tobacco dispenser, 12 October 1827
Traveljournal 1845
Traveljournal 1846
- Schaffhausen–Ostend, 15–17 October 1846
- Crossing from Ostend to Dover, 18 October 1846
- Fischer inspects the atmospheric railway, 22 October 1846
- The Butterley Works and a highway robbery at Alfredton, 26 October 1846
- Liverpool’s maritime ironworks, 29 October 1846
- A visit to the works of Cammell and Sanderson in Sheffield, 30 October 1846
- Fischer loses his way in Sheffield, 31 October 1846
- Fischer, Johann Conrad: Tagebücher. Bearbeitet von Karl Schib. Schaffhausen 1951.
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