User:EdJogg/Steam Portal

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 -- has volunteered his access to the Newcomen Society papers, should we ever need them. (15:22, 23 March 2011 (UTC))

'Wikirank' comparison of article popularity (steam engine vs others)

Potentially related WikiProjects?

 * WikiProject History of Science -- tagged Timeline of steam power


 * WikiProject Agriculture -- tagged Advance-Rumely


 * WikiProject Companies -- tagged Advance-Rumely

Research notes for article development

 * ihp and indicated horsepower both redirect to 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
 * Steam car - includes good history and pic of cugnot's tricycle  - 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


 * The British Steam Car Challenge includes some history of earlier speed record attempts - might be worth a page of its own...?


 * 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

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.His other contributions may cover more steam-related equipment not yet encountered (eg Dragsaw). Well worth a look.

Hierarchy
Category:Steam power (use cat main)
 * Resides under: Category:Energy, Category:Energy conversion, and Category:Mechanical engineering


 * Category tree

THIS SECTION NEEDS RATIONALISING NOW THAT THE CAT TREE IS AVAILABLE
 * Missing categories
 * 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 – 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 – 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!

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

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 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.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 – already in Category:Railway museums in the United Kingdom –  this is the Lea Valley Experience, the Pump House Museum that is currently closed for refurbishment
 * Cobb's Engine House – used to contain a Newcomen engine, which is now in America
 * Cornish Mines & Engines – little more than a stub
 * Levant Mine & Beam Engine – 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 in fiction
==Category:Steampunk
 * The Railway Series - of course!
 * 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