Home-made boiler
and
steam engine by Owen Bosma built from scratch, using a lathe and
welding equipment.
Locomotive type boiler on skids
Before
the "Steam Age" energy was provided by humans actually pushing
and pulling, horses, wind or water-all of which have one main problem:
they are controlled by nature, unpredictable, unreliable and not very
strong. The steam engine could be used to pump water, to speed up
production in the factories. It changed the face of the world
industrially and socially- trains were invented for land and steamships
for water. The steam engine changed the shape of the nineteenth century.
Owen Bosma Collection