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Revision as of 18:26, 13 December 2014
Michael Loam (1797-1871) a Cornishman who invented the Man Engine, a device to carry men up and down the shaft of a mine. He won the prize for this design, offered by the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society in 1834.
Inspired by German designs and constructed of a series of moving platforms, the Man Engine was finally erected at the Tresavean Mine, in Lanner near Redruth in 1842.
He was trained as an engineer at Wheal Abraham by Arthur Woolf.
Designed a bucket-wheel for a competition for raising the sewage of London from the lower to the higher level sewer.
1861 Mr. S. Holman, of 18, Cannon-street, London, saw the model of Loam's Wheel and publicized it as a means of raising fluids for irrigation, emptying docks, and other such purposes.[1]
Michael Loam remained active in the metal mining and smelting industries in Cornwall and is noted as an investor in the Tamar Tin Smelting Co in 1863.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer 1861/07/05/
- [1] Wikipedia