sidewheeler Diesbar

[steamboatmodel]

Hi All,
I received an interesting post from the steamboats forum:

About 15 years ago I happened to be in an environmental symposium in
Dresden, East Germany. As part of our touring after sessions we rode
the sidewheeler Diesbar, the 2nd oldest operating passenger carrying
steamboat in Europe. Built in 1884, it had a huge oscillating engine
built by John Penn and Sons in GB in 1841. I was most amused by the 10
year guarantee of a replacement Krupp crankshaft installed in the
engine in 1853 since it had expired nearly 43 years before the used
engine was installed in the new Diesbar hull. When I took my cruise
the engine was running very, very smoothly. It still functions well
after a mere 167 years of operation.

I won't repeat any of the details since a full description of this
Engineering Landmark is available from the ASME at:

http://files. asme.org/ asmeorg/Communit ies/History/ Landmarks/ 14902.pdf

Regards to all my steam geezer bretheren... ..Earl Morse

Found it very interesting,
Regards,
Gerald

[kno3]

Thanks for the link. It's a very interesting reading. Did anybody make models of such oscillating engines?