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Within Vinony's link graph, portable engine is referenced by 76 other articles, and connects out to agricultural machinery, Germany and England.
It sits within the topics Agricultural machinery, Stationary steam engines and Steam engines.
Its subject is documented across 30 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- agricultural machinery
- Subclass of
- steam engine
- Image
- Meyers b10 s0880a.jpg
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- Commons category
- Portable engines
- different from
- traction engine
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Encyclopedic overview
A portable engine, preserved at the museum in Blankenhain Castle, Germany. The chimney has been folded-down, ready for transporting the engine to a new location. The axle under the smokebox (on the left) pivots to allow the engine to be steered. Towing eyes are provided on the same axle assembly to allow the engine to be pulled along. A Czechoslovak portable engine
A portable engine is an engine, either a steam engine or an internal combustion engine, that sits in one place while operating (providing power to machinery), but (unlike a stationary engine) is portable and thus can be easily moved from one work site to another. Mounted on wheels or skids, it is either towed to the work site or moves there via self-propulsion.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “portable engine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.