high-pressure steam engine

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A steam engine driven by high-pressure steam. Unlike Watt’s steam engine, atmospheric pressure does not play a role.

The high-pressure steam engine does not need a condensor, but the cylinder design is more demanding.

Traveljournal 1814

Final visits in Paris, 12–17 September 1814

Traveljournal 1825

Perkin’s steam engine, 9 July 1825
Visit to a gasworks in London, 14 July 1825
Visit to the engineering firm of Taylor & Martineau, 15 July 1825
Visit to Brunel’s sawmill, 16 July 1825

Traveljournal 1825–1827

The tunnel beneath the Thames, 21 October 1825
Perkins demonstrates the high pressure steam engine, 27 September 1827

Traveljournal 1846

Fischer loses his way in Sheffield, 31 October 1846

Traveljournal 1851

Further highlights of the Exhibition, 29 June 1851
Birmingham, 4 July 1851

Fischer, Johann Conrad: Tagebücher. Bearbeitet von Karl Schib. Schaffhausen 1951.

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Cite as: high-pressure steam engine. In: Travel Reports of a Pioneer: Digital Edition of the Travel Journals of Johann Conrad Fischer 1794–1851. Published by Franziska Eggimann. Edited by Franziska Eggimann, Nicolau Lutz, Valerija Rukavina und Christopher Zoller-Blundell. Schlatt 2023, Version 1.2, https://johannconradfischer.com/en/keywords/gfa-keywords-8673, viewed on 7 June 2025.

[[title]] — Fairbairn’s 6 HP high-pressure column engine (drawing by W. J. Lindsey, 1852)