Engines

vahadlový parní stroj, Anglie, okolo r. 1850, stroj byl používán v karlínské Daňkově strojírně

The engines collection has been amassed since the founding of the museum. The collection consists of original engines and their models. The collection also feature models of steam generators, samples of engine parts, important engineering nodes, auxiliary mechanisms and equipment for the mechanical distribution of energy. The entire collection, numbering some 350 objects, is divided into wind engines, hydro-engines, steam engines (piston steam engines and turbines) and combustion engines. The collection of gas engines from the 1860s and 70s is an important part of the collection. Some of the most important engines manufactured in the territory that is now the Czech Republic include Kaplan’s test turbine, which is the first specimen of this type of engine in the world, or the Parsons steam turbine, built in 1902 in the First Brno Engineering. The major domestic structures, documented in the collection also includes a steam engine with valve Zvoníčkovým divorce in 1908, made the first Moravian factory machines in Prague.