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Brunton Horse-to-go-by-steam 3d printed

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Brunton Horse-to-go-by-steam 3d printed
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Brunton Horse-to-go-by-steam

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If I am mad enough, the propulsive gear for this model may follow!

From 1800 until 1815 due to the demands of Wellington’s military campaigns in Napoleonic Europe, horses had become very scarce in Britain - far more valuable than human workers .

So the time was ripe for experimenting with steam powered replacements. Best known are Trevithick's Coalbrookdale Loco, Blenkinsop’s rack Loco at Middleton Leeds, and our local Wylam Puffing Billy adhesion locomotive that ran along the Tyne past George Stephenson's birthplace.
William Brunton’s Mechanical Traveller or Steam Horse worked down to the canal at Crich Derbyshire from 1813.
Brunton’s Steam Horse was also put to work in the north east plodding along propelling coal chauldrons before it. A reputed two cylinder version  was acquired by Newbottle colliery (Philadelphia) Sunderland.

In July 1815, ironically at a celebration of Wellington's victory at Waterloo on the banks of the river Wear at Newbottle, the Steam Horse was being demonstrated, and being goaded to canter and to gallop by a crowd of onlookers. The machine is said to have achieved speeds up to 30 mph.

Urged to run still faster, the engineer weighted down the safety valve inevitably causing the boiler to explode.

15 people including the engineer were killed in the world’s first railway disaster over 200 years ago.

        
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Brunton Horse-to-go-by-steam
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