Ferrabee Table Steam Engine

A brief section from the Treatise on the Steam Engine, covering table engines. The design was believed to have first been constructed by Maudslay, Sons and Field. It is basically a vertical cylinder connected by a cross-head to side link connectors to a crank-shaft underneath. The table engine was a simple and robust design for foundries and engineering companies to manufacture.

In some respects Ferrabee's engine resembles Maudslay's table engine, represented in fig. 52 on page 37 of the Treatise on the Steam Engine...