Dakeyne hydraulic disc engine
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The Dakeyne Hydraulic Disc Engine was a high pressure engine built in the 19th century to power a flax mill in Ladygrove, Derbyshire, England. Invented by Edward and James Dakeyne, two young sons of Daniel Dakeyne of Derbyshire. While water turbines were little more than an idea in France at the time, they not only invented but built what was certainly one of the first machines capable of generating power (hydropower) from water at high pressure.
The machine itself is difficult to describe. Frank Nixon, in his book The Industrial Archaeology of Derbyshire (Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1969 ISBN 0715343513), commented that "The most striking characteristic of this ingenious machine is perhaps the difficulty experienced by those trying to describe it; the patentees & Stephen Glover only succeeded in producing descriptions of monumental incomprehensibility."
[edit] External links
- Description of engine and links to three illustrations, one from Mechanics Magazine, 1833.
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