User:EdJogg/Steam Portal
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Article development at User:EdJogg/Steam Portal/Sandbox
NOTE -- have recently created Category:Steam road vehicle manufacturing companies but now considering requesting a rename to the slightly shorter Category:Steam road vehicle manufacturers -- 12:23, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
NOTE 2 -- there is scope for an article (sub- of steam engine) covering the preservation movement. This would provide a parent article for the new Category:Preserved steam engines and Category:Preserved stationary steam engines and a good way of linking-in Live Steam, Steam fairs, vehicle restoration, etc -- 09:30, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
NOTE 3 -- Sitush (talk · contribs) has volunteered his access to the Newcomen Society papers, should we ever need them. (15:22, 23 March 2011 (UTC))
'Wikirank' comparison of article popularity (steam engine vs others) [dead link]
Potentially related WikiProjects?
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Research notes for article development
[edit]- ihp and indicated horsepower both redirect to Horsepower#Indicated horsepower. This short section may benefit from referenced expansion!
- Steam bus - little more than general history, yet not shown as a stub
- Useful content added 16 Jun 08, describing how steam vehicles were better for roads and safer than horse-drawn equivalents - merge across to history article and steam road vehicle (under 'advantages').
- Steam tricycle - actually covers 'any' three-wheeled steam road vehicle
- Includes a pic of Cugnot's first vehicle
- Suggest we should have an article covering the development of steam road transport somewhere, to collate all the snippets! (see PRJ's project page!)
- Lots here already
Steam car - includes good history and pic of cugnot's tricycle
- has been used as basis for History of steam road vehicles- Steam wagon -- found (unref'd) mention of use of old steam wagon chassis for Bison concrete armoured lorries in WW2
- The British Steam Car Challenge includes some history of earlier speed record attempts - might be worth a page of its own...?
- Entry for Traction Engine on RitchieWiki: This wiki is intended to contain knowledge about equipment and industry.
- Worth adding to other articles and using as a source for other reference material -- in particular, their coverage of TE and roller history is far better than here (so far), although the precursor history is somewhat peculiar!!
- Should be added as an external link on all relevant pages (eg steam shovel, steam donkey, Aveling & Porter, etc - already added to TE page. Might be worth maintaing a list of which pages have links, and which pages are not yet present at RitchieWiki.)
- Not good idea to cite it directly, but it does seem to be based on references and is NOT just a WP mirror. Articles on traction engine, steam engine and steam donkey (the only ones examined) are clearly written from original material and not based on the WP articles.
- Goldsworthy Gurney article -- Acts of Parliament following from his early steam carriage services, imposed prohibitive tolls on steam vehilces, effectively suppressing development, etc
- Edwin Foden, Sons & Co. expanded on 01 Oct 09 to include refs to steam vehicle legislation and traction engines
Notes
[edit]Vehicle contains a large chunk about Steam Carriages, which is out-of-place, but contains no other vehicles besides Steam tricycle!
Automobile contains a cursory section on steam propulsion, and the history section is weird! Also links to...
History of the automobile which contains out-of-date info concerning steam power...
- See Timeline of transportation technology - lots missing from here!
- See History of rail transport
- See Timeline of railway history
- See Category:Rail transport timelines
- See Category:Pioneers of rail transport
Aim is to gather all articles about steam engines and steam-powered stuff into a co-ordinated hierarchy of categories. This is where it will be worked out, in stages, before going 'live'.
Further research
[edit]- User:Sfsorrow2 has applied many (useful) changes to Steam shovel.
His other contributions may cover more steam-related equipment not yet encountered (eg Dragsaw). Well worth a look.
Hierarchy
[edit]Category:Steam power (use {{cat main}})
- Resides under: Category:Energy, Category:Energy conversion, and Category:Mechanical engineering
- Category tree
- Missing categories
THIS SECTION NEEDS RATIONALISING NOW THAT THE CAT TREE IS AVAILABLE
- Category:Steam engines
- Category:Stationary steam engines -- also under Category:Stationary engines
- Category:Beam engines -- also under Category:Steam engines (needs changing?)
- Category:Steam engine manufacturers
- Category:Steam engine technologies
- Category:Steam cranes
- Category:Stationary steam engines -- also under Category:Stationary engines
- Category:Pioneers of steam technology
- Idea is to gather people who have contributed to the development of the steam engine (or locomotive)
- Fits nicely with the others in Category:Pioneers by field
- Category:Preserved steam
- Category:Preserved steam engines -- does this fulfil 'Preserved steam' ??
- Category:Preserved stationary steam engines
- Category:Preserved steam locomotives
- Category:Preserved steam locomotives by country
- Category:Australian Heritage Steam Locomotives
- Category:Preserved Belgian steam locomotives
- Category:Preserved British steam locomotives
- Category:Preserved Canadian steam engines
- Category:Preserved German team engines
- Category:Preserved Indian steam engines
- Category:Preserved steam locomotives of the United States
- Category:Preserved steam locomotives by country
- Category:Rail transport preservation in the United Kingdom
- Category:Preserved British steam locomotives – also 'Steam locomotives', see below
- Category:Heritage railways in the United Kingdom
- and sub-cats for England/Scotland/Ireland/Wales/etc
- Category:Railway museums in the United Kingdom
- and sub-cats for England/Scotland/Ireland/Wales/etc
- List of railway museums in the United Kingdom
- Category:Railway museums
- Category:Railway museums in the United Kingdom
- and sub-cats for England/Scotland/Ireland/Wales/etc
- Category:Railway museums in the United Kingdom
- Category:Heritage railways
- Category:Heritage railways in the United Kingdom
- and sub-cats for England/Scotland/Ireland/Wales/etc
- Category:Heritage railways in the United Kingdom
- Category:Steam festivals -- currently under Category:Steam engines
- Category:Preserved steam engines -- does this fulfil 'Preserved steam' ??
- Category:Steam-powered pumping stations
- not sure about this one - is already covered by a more useful list under pumping station
- might be better to include a new cat for Category:Pumping stations?
- Category:Steam vehicles
- Category:Steam aircraft
- Category:Steam road vehicles
- Category:Steam locomotives
- Category:Preserved British steam locomotives – also, see 'Preserved Steam', above
- Category:Steam locomotive technologies
- ...and, by association, all the other sub-cats
- Category:Steam boats
- Category:Steamships
- Category:Steam vehicle manufacturers
- Category:Steam transport
- potential overlap with steam vehicles, but vehicles to go in there first
- Category:Mis-named steam things
- ie things that are called steam but have nothing to do with hot water!
- Might be better as a cohesive article than a category
- some would argue that it is POV!
Article categorising
[edit]- Steam carousel -- actually a DAB page
- Steam organ - redirect link to Calliope (music)
- Timeline of steam power
- Steam power during the Industrial Revolution
- Also see Industrial Revolution#Steam power - good potted history, plus pic of Watt engine
- - actually very high overlap between the two articles.... ...rationalisation required?
==Category:Steam engine manufacturers
===Category:Locomotive manufacturers of the United Kingdom
- add as sub-cat
==Category:Steam engine technologies
- Fusible plug
- Firebox (steam engine)
- Economiser - like a feedwater heater, but different mechanism
- Feedwater heater - currently part of Category:Locomotive parts
- Giovanni Branca - (1629) early proposal for a steam turbine design
- NOTE - (as at 14:42, 11 January 2009 (UTC)) not mentioned in body of History of the steam engine
- Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont -- 1606 -- atmospheric steam-powered water pump for draining mines
- Thomas Newcomen - first viable steam pump
- James Watt Made steam power for industry a working proposition
- Oliver Evans - US, same generation as Trevithick, some say invented before T.
- Richard Trevithick - pioneer of "strong steam"
- Jacob Perkins -- (1766-1849) -- very high pressure steam, steam machine gun, uniflow steam engines
- Arthur Woolf - designer of a compound steam engine
- Timothy Hackworth - Much underrated key player in the early history of the locomotive
- John Blenkinsop - inventor of rack rail system intended for steam operation
- Matthew Murray - developed lightweight locomotive for the above
- John Urpeth Rastrick - worked with Trevithick, and on the L&MR; founder of Foster, Rastrick and Company, pioneering steam locomotive manufacturers
- Goldsworthy Gurney - Pioneer of small scale fast-steaming watertube boiler; built a number of successful road vehicles.
- Walter Hancock - pioneer of road vehicles, esp. buses
- William Samuel Henson - co-inventor of Aerial Steam Carriage
- John Stringfellow - co-inventor of Aerial Steam Carriage
- Henri Giffard - Inventor of the injector; developed lightweight steam power unit, suitable for lighter-than-air craft
- Livio Dante Porta - Modern steam
- NOTE - there is already Category:Industrial archaeology which this perhaps should be a sub-cat of...?
- NOTE - existence of Category:Industry museums in the United Kingdom, to which a number of these museums altready belong
- NOTE - railways are already well categorised, so needn't list many here
- Concentrate on looking for non-railway stuff!
- NOTE:Category:Steam-powered pumping stations, if created, is a separate top-level cat.
- Any 'preserved' pumping stations should go in 'Preserved Steam' as well.
see list of pumping stations at Pumping station
- Bristol Harbour Railway - as part of Bristol Industrial Museum, has several preserved steam tugs and a (dock) steam crane (inc. picture)
- Hollycombe Steam Collection - stub, and not NPOV, neither!
- List of British heritage and private railways - 'LOOK - many more links at bottom of page
- Smethwick engine
- Thinktank, Birmingham
- Tower Bridge
- Walthamstow Pump House Museum – already in Category:Railway museums in the United Kingdom – this is the Lea Valley Experience, the Pump House Museum that is currently closed for refurbishment
- Cobb's Engine House – used to contain a Newcomen engine, which is now in America
- Cornish Mines & Engines – little more than a stub
- Levant Mine & Beam Engine – little more than a stub
- Steam Carousel (Efteling) -- NB - no longer steam powered
- Creusot steam hammer -- 'preserved', but inactive
- Elsecar Heritage Centre -- last Newcomen engine in original location (currently non-working)
- Anson Engine Museum -- includes some preserved steam engines
- Long Shop Museum -- former home of Richard Garrett & Sons
===Category:Railway museums in the United Kingdom
====Category:Heritage railways in the United Kingdom
==Category:Steam vehicle manufacturers
==Category:Steam road vehicles
- Traction engine - cat the redirects!
===Category:Steam road vehicle manufacturers
====Category:Steam road vehicle manufacturers of the United Kingdom
- also sub-cat of Category:Steam engine manufacturers, Category:Steam vehicle manufacturers, and Category:Steam road vehicles
- William Foster & Co.
- Sheppee - Steam commercial vehicles and steam car
====Category:Steam road vehicle manufacturers of the United States
- The Railway Series - of course!
- Steam Detectives - Japanese manga series, with a definite steam connection!
- steampunk - literary style similar to cyberpunk, but with steam-era technology!
- many, many other titles. How do we sanely link it in?
- Steam beer - does not use steam in the brewing process!
==Category:Steam (content delivery) products
- Steam (content delivery), SteamID, Steam Gadget - online gaming system!
Possible new cat? To include:
External links
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Found via Owl's Head Transportation Museum links page:
- Steam Engine Library -- Collection of documents appertaining to steam engines (already in use as source for Hero info)
- Brief History of the Steam Engine -- Another academic site, includes links to bibliography and timeline
- How Stuff Works - the steam engine
- Virtual library of early steam engine history -- Italian site, but most in English, includes some animations
- History of the steam engine (at About.com) -- useful stuff. Not a WP mirror. Mixture of text and links to other sites.