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DESCRIPTION Tangye Horizontal Gas Engine, Serial No 10617B
MANUFACTURER Tangye Ltd, Cornwall Works, Birmingham
INVENTOR/DESIGNER Charles W Pinkney (c.1856-1936), British
DATE c.1905
MATERIAL Iron, steel, paint, copper alloy
DIMENSIONS 940x1650x1000
PROVENANCE Gift from Tangyes Limited in 1957
LOCATION MCC
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Tangye Horizontal Gas Engine | © Thinktank Trust | Stored at the Museum Collections Centre - look out for public open days
Tangye Brothers made gas engines from the 1890s. Like James Watt & Co. before them, they exported worldwide.
The Tangyes attracted creative people to work for them. They wrote: ‘We are in a position to offer unusual facilities to Inventors for carrying out their patents.’ Their engineer Charles Pinkney designed this engine. He was rewarded by having his name on it.
By 1900, people like Pinkney and firms like Tangyes had given Birmingham an international reputation as a modern industrial centre. There were so many industries that it was known as the ‘city of a thousand trades’. |
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