User:EdJogg/Steam Portal
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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)
[edit] Research notes for article development
- Steam bus - little more than general history, yet not shown as a stub
- 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
[edit] Notes
Vehicle contains a large chunk about Steam Carriages, which is out-of-place, but contains no other vehicles besides Steam tricycle!
Automobile contains a cursory section on steam propulsion, and the history section is weird! Also links to...
History of the automobile which contains out-of-date info concerning steam power...
- See Timeline of transportation technology - lots missing from here!
- See History of rail transport
- See Timeline of railway history
- See Category:Rail transport timelines
- See Category:Pioneers of rail transport
[edit] 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'.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Hierarchy
Category:Steam power (use {{catmore}})
- Resides under: Category:Energy, Category:Energy conversion, and Category:Mechanical engineering
- Category:Steam engines
- Category:Steam engine manufacturers
- Category:Steam engine technologies
- 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 British steam locomotives – also 'Steam locomotives', below
- Category:Steam festivals -- currently under Category:Steam engines
- Category:Railway museums
- 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:Steam vehicle manufacturers
- Category:Steam transport
- potential overlap with steam vehicles, but vehicles to go in there first
- Category:Steam in fiction
- 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!
[edit] Article categorising
[edit] 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#Steam power - good potted history, plus pic of Watt engine
- - actually very high overlap between the two articles.... ...rationalisation required?
[edit] Category:Steam engines
==Category:Steam engine manufacturers
===Category:Locomotive manufacturers of the United Kingdom
- add as sub-cat
==Category:Steam engine technologies
- Fusible plug
- Firebox (steam engine)
- Economiser - like a feedwater heater, but different mechanism
- Feedwater heater - currently part of Category:Locomotive parts
[edit] Category:Pioneers of steam technology
- 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"
- 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'
[edit] 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
- 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 -- inactive
- Elsecar Heritage Centre -- last Newcomen engine in original location (currently non-working)
===Category:Railway museums in the United Kingdom
====Category:Heritage railways in the United Kingdom
[edit] 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
[edit] Category:Steam transport
[edit] Category:Steam in fiction
- 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?
[edit] 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!
[edit] Category:Steam-powered agriculture
Possible new cat? To include:
[edit] Wikimedia Commons sources
Useful pages from Wikimedia Commons:
- [Steam road vehicles] - includes steam roller component pictures!
- [Steam Machinery]
- [Cat - Steam engines]
- [Cat - Boilers]
- [Cat - Steam vehicles]
- [Cat - agricultural machines] - includes pics of a thresher and a reaper
Useful for Category pages. This box ( see 
) is produced by the following code:
{{commonscat1Ra|Traction engine|Traction engines}}
Alternatively, use {{commonscat1Ra| {{PAGENAME}}|Commons_cat_name}} where the article name matches the category name.
