The building dates to 1856 when a rotative beam engine was built to replace windmill style engines possibly dating to 1540 and draining land between the rivers Witham.
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Although the last Cornish beam engines had been installed only a few years earlier, these were pumping engines, not rotative beam engines like this for winding.
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Some enterprises were created to explore this, such as the Mirante da Serra, the first rotative tower restaurant in Brazil and the highest building in the region.
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The "'Pinchbeck Engine "'is a drainage engine, a rotative beam engine built in 1833 to drain River Glen at Surfleet Seas End.
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With a rotative engine, it was necessary to control the rate at which an engine moved throughout its stroke, not merely to vary the timing between strokes.
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His differential system, applied to vertical compound engines, greatly increased the efficiency of non-rotative pumping engines and prolonged their viability as alternatives to rotating machines.
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Watt held patents on key aspects of his engine's design, but his rotative engine was equally restricted by the patent by an other of the simple crank.
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One rotative beam engine that was built for the Lion Brewery in about 1826 remained in service until 1964 and is now preserved at the Abbey Pumping Station, Leicester.
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The amended Constitution abolished rotative renewal of the Senate, required all legislators to be elected in single districts, and made the State cabinet offices elective by popular ballot.
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It was not until the Scottish engineer James Watt introduced the " rotative " steam engine, for driving factory machinery, that a constant operating speed became necessary.
