THE 



PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE 



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ANNALS OF PHILOSOPHY. 



[NEW SERIES.] 



APRIL 182^ 



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L. Descriptmi of a Horizontal Pumping Engine erected on the 

 Mine of Moran in Mexico. By Philip Taylor, Esq. 



[With an Engraving.] 

 To the Editors of the Philosophical Magazine and Annals. 

 Gentlemen, 



^HE first steam-engine erected in the Real del Monte, was 

 put in action on the 12th of last August, at the Mine of 

 Moran. So novel a sight to the natives of Mexico, naturally 

 attracted vast numbers of all ranks ; and having heretofore 

 seen no other ineans of raising water from their mines than 

 such as were adapted to the comparatively feeble power of 

 men or mules, they were of course astonished at the gigantic 

 and untired efforts of one of these great servants to the arts. 



As this engine differs in construction from any hitherto em- 

 ployed for pumping water, a short description of it may in- 

 terest your readers. 



I believe no doubt was ever entertained by those competent 

 to form an opinion, that, if steam-engines could be transported 

 to the mines of America, and fuel found to work them, such 

 mines as admitted of their application would become far more 

 productive. The difficulties anticipated were as to the con- 

 veyance of such ponderous machinery over so rugged a coun- 

 try, and as to the erection of it when arrived on the spot. 



To obviate these difficulties as much as possible, 1 endea- 

 voured to invent a powerful engine which at tlie same time 

 should consist of such parts as would be easily conveyed, and 

 so constructed that it could be erected and put to work with- 

 out the usual labour and expense of building an engine- 

 house, &c. 

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