Museum of steam (steam-engines) at Kew bridge actually devoted to the history of water supply of London. But the charm exhibited here puffing, wheezing and swirling steam of the dinosaurs so large that to call the Museum or English must be the language is not turned.

The first is suitable for the practical application of the steam engine was built in 1712, the English blacksmith Thomas Newcomen. Britain at that time was in desperate need of the engine for mechanical looms, pumping water from the mines, transportation of goods. In 1782, James watt perfected the machine Newcomen, and in 1812 on the river Clyde swam the first British steamer. In 1830 the first railroad connecting Manchester and Liverpool. British engineering was the best in the world. Country for a century has become one of the leaders of the industrial revolution.

Steam engines of that era bear little resemblance to today's engines under the hoods of cars. It was the hottest Swinger with a rotating cast-iron flywheels and moving back and forth the rods. One of these monsters, the car "Grand junction" with a piston diameter of 100 inches (over 2, 5 meters! ), is the special pride of the Museum: the largest surviving single-cylinder steam engine in the world. It was built in 1869 and worked properly, shaking the water, until the forties of the twentieth century.

Monster the height of three floors is located in a former pumping station, which from 1838 delivered water to West London, is now used as a Museum. Here lies one of the world's largest collections of steam engines, almost all of them in working condition. The oldest steam engine Museum built in Birmingham in 1820. Here, however, to admire and to the rarity of earlier epochs: the present water wheel with a diameter of six meters – such in England was powered machines before the era of steam.

Steam machine is a fascinating spectacle. Around the Museum there is a narrow gauge railway for a tiny tank engine "Thomas Wixted" – and this is not a toy, but perfectly working machine, one of many hydraulic structures of the Victorian era. But the true greatness of this technology helps to realize the tremendous run steam pumps Corniche occurring here once a month. Turn majestic cast iron flywheels, silently go shiny from grease cranks – a true celebration of steampunk! The Museum offers connoisseurs even parties in the steam room: cocktails, snacks, flowers, and work quietly around the mighty giants of a bygone era.