Single-Cylinder Sliding Valve Steam Engine
Craftsman: Les Cade
Catalog #: 2011.4.13
Donor: Les Cade
This single-cylinder sliding valve steam engine was built from a bronze casting kit using Sherline miniature machine tools.
Single-Cylinder Steam Engine With Scotch Yoke
Craftsman: Birk Petersen
Catalog #: 2016.15.106
Donor: Mark Petersen
This single-cylinder steam engine uses a Scotch Yoke mechanism to transfer power to the flywheel.
Solar-Powered Victorian Steam Engine
Craftsman: Szymon Klimek
Catalog #: 2009.15.1
Donor: Szymon Klimek
This miniature brass solar-powered Victorian steam engine is called “Susi.” It was built by Szymon Klimek, of Poland, and is enclosed in a wine goblet like many of his other pieces.
Sprinkler Handle Flywheel Steam Engine
Craftsman: Birk Petersen
Catalog #: 2016.15.113
Donor: Mark Petersen
This small single-cylinder oscillating steam engine incorporates a red cast hose bibb handle as the flywheel.
Square Piston Engine
Craftsman: Theodore Carder
Catalog #: 2021.11.7
Donor: Susi Trumbo
This unusual miniature engine built by Theodore Carder features a square piston.
Stationary Steam Engine
Craftsman: Thomas Walton
Catalog #: 2018.28.1
Donor: Fred Leonard
This model, built around 1890, is representative of the steam engines that were used at the mines in England in the late 1800’s.
Steam Engine With Boiler
Craftsman: Rudy Kouhoupt
Donor: Susan Alvaro
This engine was built as a complete steam plant with its own operational boiler to produce steam.
Steam Engine With Boiler
Craftsman: Rudy Kouhoupt
Donor: Susan Alvaro
This miniature steam engine was modeled after a typical logging “donkey” engine with hoist on skids.
Steam Powered Tugboat
Craftsman: Jerry Lake
Catalog #: 2023.3.1
Donor: Jerry Lake
Jerry Lake built this Dumas “carol Moran” XL tugboat to house his functional Saito steam engine. The steam powered tugboat is radio controlled.
Steam Roller Engine
Craftsman: Theodore Carder
Catalog #: 2021.11.8
Donor: Susi Trumbo
This miniature functional steam roller engine can be operated on compressed air.
Steam-Powered Water Pump
Craftsman: Rudy Kouhoupt
Donor: Susan Alvaro
This is a flywheel type steam pump with the steam cylinder and the water pump cylinder connected by a Scotch yoke mechanism.
Steeple Engine
Craftsman: Birk Petersen
Catalog #: 2016.15.12
Donor: Mark Petersen
A vertical piston drives the flywheel via a cast frame with “steeple” shaped side members.
Stuart #1 Steam Engine
Craftsman: Russell Anderson
Catalog #: 2019.21.6
Contributor: Steve Anderson
Several engines built by Russell Anderson, including this Stuart #1 steam engine, are on display in the Miniature Engineering Craftsmanship Museum.
Stuart #9 Horizontal Steam Engine
Craftsman: Phillip Duclos
Catalog #: 2013.50.10
Donor: George and Dorlene Root
This handsome horizontal steam engine appears to have been built using castings from Stuart Models in England.
Stuart 10H Steam Engine
Craftsman: Laurence McKinley
Catalog #: 2015.4.1
Donor: Laurence McKinley
This Stuart 10H horizontal steam engine was built by Laurence McKinley at the age of 12.
Stuart 10V Engine
Craftsman: Donald Barnes
Contributor: Craig Libuse
This Stuart 10V vertical steam engine is from the line of Stuart Models casting kits available out of England.
Stuart Engine
Craftsman: Russell Anderson
Catalog #: 2019.21.10
Contributor: Steve Anderson
Several engines built by Russell Anderson, including this Stuart engine, are on display in the Miniature Engineering Craftsmanship Museum.
Stuart Single-Cylinder Steam Engine
Craftsman: Roger Butzen
Knapp Collection #: 766
Catalog #: 2024.5.12
Contributor: Paul Knapp
This Stuart single-cylinder steam engine was built by Roger Butzen.
Thimble Steam Engine
Craftsman: Birk Petersen
Catalog #: 2016.15.110
Donor: Mark Petersen
The thimble steam engine is so minute that it fits in a small pill bottle.
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