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Michael Loam Inventor of the Man Engine
Michael Loam, ca 1860s, Tresavean Mine Engineer and inventor or developer of the Man Engine, was born on the 1st November 1797 at Ludgvan, Cornwall. He died on the 14th July 1871 and was buried in Gwennap churchyard.
He built the first Cornish Man Engine at the Tresavean mine in Gwennap Parish in 1842, adapted from a German design, to win a competition sponsored by the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. After a successful trial period, the Tresavean Mine's Directors gave the go ahead to extend down to the 248 fathom level, the first of 16 such engines to be built in Cornwall.
Bakehouse Yard, off the south side of Webber Street
Bakehouse Yard, part of the 1934 programme of Clearance Orders
Post Office Yard, off Market Street
Behind WH Smith, separated from what was then Woolworth's flat roofed building (now Wilko) by Fountain Ope. Included in the Clearance programme of 1957.
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