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''Article development at [[User:EdJogg/Steam Portal/Sandbox]]''

NOTE -- have recently created [[:Category:Steam road vehicle manufacturing companies]] but now considering requesting a rename to the slightly shorter [[:Category:Steam road vehicle manufacturers]] -- 12:23, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

NOTE 2 -- there is scope for an article (sub- of [[steam engine]]) covering the preservation movement. This would provide a parent article for the new [[:Category:Preserved steam engines]] and [[:Category:Preserved stationary steam engines]] and a good way of linking-in Live Steam, Steam fairs, vehicle restoration, etc -- 09:30, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

NOTE 3 -- {{user|Sitush}} has volunteered his access to the Newcomen Society papers, should we ever need them. (15:22, 23 March 2011 (UTC))

[http://wikirank.com/en/Steam_engine,Rocket,Jet_engine,Internal_combustion_engine?size=3#month=200901&size=3 'Wikirank' comparison of article popularity (steam engine vs others)] {{deadlink}}

==Potentially related WikiProjects?==
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Science]] -- tagged [[Timeline of steam power]]

*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Agriculture]] -- tagged [[Advance-Rumely]]

*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Companies]] -- tagged [[Advance-Rumely]]






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==Research notes for article development==
*[[ihp]] and [[indicated horsepower]] both redirect to [[Horsepower#Indicated horsepower]]. This short section may benefit from referenced expansion!
*[[Steam bus]] - little more than general history, yet not shown as a stub ''
**Useful content added 16 Jun 08, describing how steam vehicles were better for roads and safer than horse-drawn equivalents - merge across to history article and [[steam road vehicle]] (under 'advantages').
*[[Steam tricycle]] - ''actually covers 'any' three-wheeled steam road vehicle''
**Includes a pic of [[Cugnot]]'s first vehicle
**Suggest we should have an article covering the development of steam road transport somewhere, to collate all the snippets! (see PRJ's project page!)
*''Lots here already''
*<s>[[Steam car]] - ''includes good history and pic of cugnot's tricycle''</s> <BR> - has been used as basis for [[History of steam road vehicles]]
*[[Steam wagon]] -- found (unref'd) mention of use of old steam wagon chassis for [[Bison concrete armoured lorries]] in WW2

*[http://www.steamcar.co.uk/ The British Steam Car Challenge] includes some history of earlier speed record attempts - might be worth a page of its own...?

*'''[http://www.ritchiewiki.com/wiki/index.php/Steam_Traction_Engine Entry for Traction Engine on RitchieWiki]''': This wiki is intended to contain knowledge about equipment and industry.
**Worth adding to other articles and using as a source for other reference material -- in particular, their coverage of TE and roller history is far better than here (so far), although the precursor history is somewhat peculiar!!
**Should be added as an external link on all relevant pages (eg [[steam shovel]], [[steam donkey]], [[Aveling & Porter]], etc - already added to TE page. Might be worth maintaing a list of which pages have links, and which pages are not yet present at RitchieWiki.)
**Not good idea to cite it directly, but it does seem to be based on references and is NOT just a WP mirror. Articles on traction engine, steam engine and steam donkey (the only ones examined) are clearly written from original material and not based on the WP articles.

*[[Goldsworthy Gurney]] article -- Acts of Parliament following from his early steam carriage services, imposed prohibitive tolls on steam vehilces, effectively suppressing development, etc

*[[Edwin Foden, Sons & Co.]] expanded on 01 Oct 09 to include refs to steam vehicle legislation and traction engines

===Notes===
[[Vehicle]] contains a large chunk about Steam Carriages, which is out-of-place, but contains no other vehicles besides [[Steam tricycle]]!
:UPDATE - Aug 2007 - has been moved to [[Steam car]].<br />[[Vehicle]] will need an update...

[[Automobile]] contains a cursory section on steam propulsion, and the history section is weird! Also links to...<br />[[History of the automobile]] which contains out-of-date info concerning steam power...

*See [[Timeline of transportation technology]] - ''lots missing from here!''
*See [[History of rail transport]]
*See [[Timeline of railway history]]
*See [[:Category:Rail transport timelines]]
*See [[:Category:Pioneers of rail transport]]

==[[:Category:Steam technology]]==
Aim is to gather all articles about steam engines and steam-powered stuff into a co-ordinated hierarchy of categories.  This is where it will be worked out, in stages, before going 'live'.

===Further research===
* [[User:Sfsorrow2]] has applied many (useful) changes to [[Steam shovel]].<BR>His [[Special:Contributions/Sfsorrow2|other contributions]] may cover more steam-related equipment not yet encountered (eg [[Dragsaw]]).  Well worth a look.

===Hierarchy===
[[:Category:Steam power]] (use {{tl|cat main}})
*Resides under: [[:Category:Energy]], [[:Category:Energy conversion]], and [[:Category:Mechanical engineering]]

;Category tree
<categorytree>
Steam power
</categorytree>

;Missing categories
'''THIS SECTION NEEDS RATIONALISING NOW THAT THE CAT TREE IS AVAILABLE'''
*[[:Category:Steam engines]]
**[[:Category:Stationary steam engines]] -- ''also under [[:Category:Stationary engines]]''
***[[:Category:Beam engines]] -- ''also under [[:Category:Steam engines]] (needs changing?)''
**[[:Category:Steam engine manufacturers]]
**[[:Category:Steam engine technologies]]
***[[:Boilers]]
**[[:Category:Steam cranes]]

*[[:Category:Pioneers of steam technology]]
**''Idea is to gather people who have contributed to the development of the steam engine (or locomotive)''
**''Fits nicely with the others in [[:Category:Pioneers by field]]''

*[[:Category:Preserved steam]]
**[[:Category:Preserved steam engines]] -- '''''does this fulfil 'Preserved steam' ??'''''
***[[:Category:Preserved stationary steam engines]]
***[[:Category:Preserved steam locomotives]]
****[[:Category:Preserved steam locomotives by country]]
*****[[:Category:Australian Heritage Steam Locomotives]]
*****[[:Category:Preserved Belgian steam locomotives]]
*****[[:Category:Preserved British steam locomotives]]
******[[:Category:Locomotives saved from Woodham Brothers scrapyard]]
*****[[:Category:Preserved Canadian steam engines]]
*****[[:Category:Preserved German team engines]]
*****[[:Category:Preserved Indian steam engines]]
*****[[:Category:Preserved steam locomotives of the United States]]
**[[:Category:Rail transport preservation in the United Kingdom]]
***[[:Category:Preserved British steam locomotives]] &ndash; ''also 'Steam locomotives', see below''
***[[:Category:Heritage railways in the United Kingdom]]
****''and sub-cats for England/Scotland/Ireland/Wales/etc''
***[[:Category:Railway museums in the United Kingdom]]
****''and sub-cats for England/Scotland/Ireland/Wales/etc''
****[[List of railway museums in the United Kingdom]]
**[[:Category:Railway museums]]
***[[:Category:Railway museums in the United Kingdom]]
****''and sub-cats for England/Scotland/Ireland/Wales/etc''
**[[:Category:Heritage railways]]
***[[:Category:Heritage railways in the United Kingdom]]
****''and sub-cats for England/Scotland/Ireland/Wales/etc''
**[[:Category:Steam festivals]] -- currently under [[:Category:Steam engines]]
***[[:Category:Threshermen's Reunions]]

*[[:Category:Steam-powered pumping stations]]
**''not sure about this one - is already covered by a more useful list under [[pumping station]]''
**''might be better to include a new cat for [[:Category:Pumping stations]]?''

*[[:Category:Steam vehicles]]
**[[:Category:Steam aircraft]]
**[[:Category:Steam road vehicles]]
***[[:Category:Steam automobiles]]
***[[:Category:Steam road vehicle manufacturers]]
****[[:Category:Steam road vehicle manufacturers of the United Kingdom]]
****[[:Category:Steam road vehicle manufacturers of the United States]]
**[[:Category:Steam locomotives]]
***[[:Category:Preserved British steam locomotives]] &ndash; ''also, see 'Preserved Steam', above''
***[[:Category:Steam locomotive technologies]]
***...and, by association, all the other sub-cats
**[[:Category:Steam boats]]
**[[:Category:Steamships]]
***[[:Category:Paddle steamers]]
**[[:Category:Steam vehicle manufacturers]]

*[[:Category:Steam transport]]
**''potential overlap with '''steam vehicles''', but vehicles to go in there first''

*[[:Category:Steam in fiction]]
**[[:Category:Steampunk]]

*[[:Category:Mis-named steam things]]
**''ie things that are called steam but have nothing to do with hot water!''
**''Might be better as a cohesive article than a category''
**''some would argue that it is POV!''

==Article categorising==

===[[:Category:Steam power]]===
*[[Steam carousel]] -- ''actually a DAB page''
*[[Steam organ]] - ''redirect link to [[Calliope (music)]]''
*[[Timeline of steam power]]
*[[Steam power during the Industrial Revolution]]
**Also see [[Industrial Revolution#Steam power]] - good potted history, plus pic of Watt engine
** - actually very high overlap between the two articles.... ...rationalisation required?

====[[:Category:Steam engines]]====
==[[:Category:Steam engine manufacturers]]

===[[:Category:Locomotive manufacturers of the United Kingdom]]   
*add as sub-cat

==[[:Category:Steam engine technologies]]
*[[Fusible plug]]
*[[Firebox (steam engine)]]
*[[Economiser]] - like a feedwater heater, but different mechanism
*[[Feedwater heater]] - currently part of [[:Category:Locomotive parts]]
===[[:Category:Boilers]]

====[[:Category:Pioneers of steam technology]]====
*[[Giovanni Branca]] - (1629) early proposal for a steam turbine design
**NOTE - (as at 14:42, 11 January 2009 (UTC)) not mentioned in body of [[History of the steam engine]]
*[[Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont]] -- 1606 -- atmospheric steam-powered water pump for draining mines
*[[Thomas Newcomen]] - first viable steam pump
*[[James Watt]] Made steam power for industry a working proposition
*[[Oliver Evans]] - ''US, same generation as Trevithick, some say invented before T.''
*[[Richard Trevithick]] - pioneer of "strong steam"
*[[Jacob Perkins]] -- (1766-1849) -- ''very high pressure steam, [[steam cannon|steam machine gun]], uniflow steam engines''
*[[Arthur Woolf]] - ''designer of a compound steam engine''
*[[Timothy Hackworth]] - Much underrated key player in the early history of the locomotive
*[[John Blenkinsop]] - inventor of rack rail system intended for steam operation
*[[Matthew Murray]] - developed lightweight locomotive for the above
*[[John Urpeth Rastrick]] - ''worked with Trevithick, and on the L&MR; founder of [[Foster, Rastrick and Company]], pioneering steam locomotive manufacturers''
*[[Goldsworthy Gurney]] - Pioneer of small scale fast-steaming watertube boiler; built a number of successful road vehicles.
*[[Walter Hancock]] - ''pioneer of road vehicles, esp. buses''
*[[William Samuel Henson]] - ''co-inventor of [[Aerial Steam Carriage]]''
*[[John Stringfellow]] - ''co-inventor of [[Aerial Steam Carriage]]''
*[[Henri Giffard]] - Inventor of the injector; developed lightweight steam power unit, suitable for lighter-than-air craft
*[[Livio Dante Porta]] - ''Modern steam''

====[[:Category:Preserved steam]]====
*'''''NOTE - there is already [[:Category:Industrial archaeology]]''' which this perhaps should be a sub-cat of...?''
*'''''NOTE - existence of [[:Category:Industry museums in the United Kingdom]]''', to which a number of these museums altready belong''
*''NOTE - railways are already well categorised, so needn't list many here''
**'''''See [[:Category:Rail transport preservation in the United Kingdom]]''
*''Concentrate on looking for non-railway stuff!''
**'''''NOTE:'''[[:Category:Steam-powered pumping stations]], if created, is a separate top-level cat.''
**''Any 'preserved' pumping stations should go in 'Preserved Steam' as well.<BR>see list of pumping stations at [[Pumping station]]''
*[[Bristol Harbour Railway]] - ''as part of [[Bristol Industrial Museum]], has several preserved steam tugs and a (dock) steam crane (inc. picture)''
*[[Hollycombe Steam Collection]] - ''stub, and not NPOV, neither!''
*[[List of British heritage and private railways]] - ''''LOOK''' - many more links at bottom of page''
*[[Smethwick engine]]
*[[Thinktank, Birmingham]]
*[[Tower Bridge]]
*[[Walthamstow Pump House Museum]] &ndash;  already in [[:Category:Railway museums in the United Kingdom]] &ndash;  this is the Lea Valley Experience, the Pump House Museum that is currently closed for refurbishment
*[[Cobb's Engine House]] &ndash; ''used to contain a Newcomen engine, which is now in America''
*[[Cornish Mines & Engines]] &ndash; ''little more than a stub''
*[[Levant Mine & Beam Engine]] &ndash; ''little more than a stub''
*[[Steam Carousel (Efteling)]] -- ''NB - no longer steam powered''
*[[Creusot steam hammer]] -- '' 'preserved', but inactive''
*[[Elsecar Heritage Centre]] -- ''last Newcomen engine in original location (currently non-working)''
*[[Anson Engine Museum]] -- ''includes some preserved steam engines''
*[[Long Shop Museum]] -- ''former home of [[Richard Garrett & Sons]]''

==[[:Category:Railway museums]]

===[[:Category:Railway museums in the United Kingdom]]
*[[List of railway museums in the United Kingdom]]

===[[:Category:Heritage railways]]

====[[:Category:Heritage railways in the United Kingdom]]

====[[:Category:Steam vehicles]]====
==[[:Category:Steam vehicle manufacturers]]

==[[:Category:Steam road vehicles]]
*[[Traction engine]] - ''cat the redirects!''

===[[:Category:Steam road vehicle manufacturers]]

====[[:Category:Steam road vehicle manufacturers of the United Kingdom]]
*''also sub-cat of [[:Category:Steam engine manufacturers]], [[:Category:Steam vehicle manufacturers]], and [[:Category:Steam road vehicles]]
*[[William Foster & Co.]]
*[[Sheppee]] - ''Steam commercial vehicles and steam car

====[[:Category:Steam road vehicle manufacturers of the United States]]

====[[:Category:Steam transport]]====

====[[:Category:Steam in fiction]]====
*[[The Railway Series]] - ''of course!''
==[[:Category:Steampunk]]
*[[Steam Detectives]] - ''Japanese manga series, with a definite steam connection!''
*[[steampunk]] - ''literary style similar to [[cyberpunk]], but with steam-era technology!''
*''many, many other titles. How do we sanely link it in?''

====[[:Category:Mis-named steam things]]====
*[[Steam beer]] - ''does not use steam in the brewing process!''

==[[:Category:Steam (content delivery) products]]
*[[Steam (content delivery)]], [[SteamID]], [[Steam Gadget]] - ''online gaming system!''

====[[:Category:Steam-powered agriculture]]====
Possible new cat? To include:
*[[Traction engine]]
*[[Steam tractor]]
*[[Darby Steam-Digger]]

==External links==
*[http://www.archive.org/web/web.php The Internet Archive '''Wayback Machine''']


Found via [http://www.ohtm.org/edu_lnks.html ''Owl's Head Transportation Museum'' links page]:
*[http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/ Steam Engine Library] -- ''Collection of documents appertaining to steam engines (already in use as source for Hero info)''
*[http://www.egr.msu.edu/~lira/supp/steam/ Brief History of the Steam Engine] -- ''Another academic site, includes links to bibliography and timeline''
*[http://www.howstuffworks.com/steam.htm How Stuff Works - the steam engine]
*[http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/6914/ Virtual library of early steam engine history] -- ''Italian site, but most in English, includes some animations''
*[http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blsteamengine.htm History of the steam engine (at About.com)] -- ''useful stuff. Not a WP mirror. Mixture of text and links to other sites.''