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A primitive form of steam engine (stationary and marine) dating from Newcomen and Watt! It has been argued that walking beam is a corruption of working beam as this is how the engine works or functions. there is a diamond shaped walking beam (steel in modern (they are long obsolete) ones and one or two cylinders and pistons. Steam is admitted to the the cylinder the piston (and the beam ) tilts up gravity valves trip on the opposite cyoinder and the process repeats itself. a walking beam engine can have a flywheel as the marine types would (the ships"s paddle wheels) or it oculd be uswed to operate pumps where it would be direct action on and off. they have been auxioliary powered by other means (su8c has diesels) and sre still in use on Oil wells pumping up thick crude oil- quite a profitabole venture inthe Middle East. There is also a walking beam esapement on some timepieces that i s sometimng else and would be very difficult to describe without illustrations.

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