COLLECTION NAME:
University of Manchester History & Heritage
Record
Image Number:
JRL15040267
Reference Number:
UPC/2/558
Image Title:
UMIST Steam Engine Laboratory
Parent Work Title:
University Photographic Collection
Date Created:
c1902-1910
Description:
The interior of the Steam Engine Laboratory in the UMIST main building on Sackville Street. Taken from a position roughly in the centre of the room the shot is angled south east to show two large steam engines fixed in place to the floor and linked together by means of funnels rising from the main bodies of the engines that join with a single connecting pipe running east west across the ceiling. Behind the first of these engines can just be seen a large wheel linked to a pulley hanging down from the roof, this is placed on an area between the engines where there is a section of wire mesh floor which could be moved allowing access to the space below. Along the southern wall are a number of glass fronted cabinets containing dials and gauges and between these and the photographer two large metal pillars rising to the exposed steel girders that supported the ceiling. In the foreground of the picture there is visible a small section of metal railings which surrounded the area in the north east of the room that descended to a greater depth than the rest of the laboratory. There is a small number ‘26’ printed in the bottom right hand corner of the picture. The Steam Engine Laboratory was located in the basement (floor A) of the building just to the east of the mechanical engineering workshops.
Keyword:
Steam Engine; Steam Engines; Laboratory; Laboratories; UMIST; University; Manchester.
Subject:
University of Manchester
Subject:
Laboratories
Subject:
Steam-engines
Category of Material:
Archives
Sub-Category:
Analogue photography
Support:
Paper
Item Height:
243 mm
Item Width:
293 mm
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
UMIST Steam Engine Laboratory
