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[Devices] Man Engine
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Man engines in Cornwall - Jan 1842-
The device [man engine] was introduced to Cornwall in January 1842, following the award of a premium for the best design, by the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. The winner, Michael Loam, built one for the proprietors of the Tresavean Mine, in Lanner near Redruth.[10][11] He used a double-rod design, driven by a waterwheel.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_engine
Man engine history
earliest known examples of this device were from the first half of the nineteenth century in the silver mining area of the Harz mountains, Germany, where they were driven by cranks connected to water wheels, although bucket hoists ("Hakenkunst") using the same method of operation had been used in Swedish iron mines since the 17th century;
first formal engine was installed in 1833 at a mine at Clausthal, Lower Saxony, where inspector Wilhelm Albert and manager Georg Dörell fastened foot platforms and hand-holds to adjacent, reciprocating pump rods, using a waterwheel-driven pump put out of use when a new drainage adit was made at a lower level.[6][8] The 1837 man engine at the Samson Pit in Sankt Andreasberg in the same region is still in use, although converted from water to electric power in 1922.[9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_engine#History
Location : Latitude: 50.2104975, Longitude: -5.1984681Matches 1 to 2 of 2
Last Name, Given Name(s)  |
Occupation  |
Person ID | Tree | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Loam, Michael engineer who introduced the first man engine into UK | 1841 | I15113 | AHP |
| 2 | Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, [Organisation] | January 1842 | I15050 | AHP |