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An 18th century illustration of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Interior view at Mercers' Hall
but not necessarily improving
at natural size and at magnifications of x5 and x50
Blenkinsop steam locomotive at Middleton colliery near Leeds Size:XL: 100 x 70cm An 18th century illustration ofBlenkinsop steam locomotive at Middleton colliery near Leeds, West Yorkshire, 1814. From Costume of Yorkshire by George Walker, 1814. Mining engineer and inventor John Blenkinsop (1783 1831) designed the first practicable steam locomotive, the 'Salamanca', in 1812. It operated by means of a rack and pinion system. Richard Trevithick had built a steam locomotive in 1805 for Wylam colliery, but it had been too heavy for the cast iron rails it was meant
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