Beuth

The August Borsig locomotive constructed in 1844 BEUTH with serial number 24 is considered the first independently developed in Germany steam locomotive. Before Borsig locomotives built after after American models. The locomotive won a race against a model of Stephenson with about ten minutes ahead and was for the next ten years as a prototype faster German locomotive designs. A driven axle and two drive axles, and a firebox made ​​for comparatively high speeds. It was named after the head of the Prussian Academy Christian Peter Wilhelm Beuth Commercial, August Borsig had prophesied that from him never something would be. A replica of the locomotive is now on display in the German Museum of Technology Berlin.

Design Features

The Beuth has over the eagle external, larger cylinder. This could be dispensed complex to make Kropf axis. The rods of the cylinders act directly on the lying in the middle of the drive wheel via eccentrically mounted on the wheel stud. Thus, the journal bearing with the highest shear forces are more easily accessible for lubrication and control. The higher steam consumption of the drive required a more powerful and larger steam boiler in the form of a standing boiler having a high vapor dome. This dome-shaped firebox is typical of all early Borsig structures such as the Borsig and the following on the Beuth Borussia. The rear wheel under the open cab of the Beuth comes in many later designs before also. The Beuth is thus actually the first mass produced steam locomotive with classic features, as in almost all later constructions were used throughout the world.

Production and use

The Beuth was shown in 1844 at the Berlin Trade Exhibition and then used by the Berlin- Anhalt Railway. This design has already been established in a total of 71 copies in a kind of series and found throughout northern Germany use. The development of Beuth Borsig as Borussia went from 1844 for example on the Cologne - Minden railway in operation, other manufacturers of the time, the Beuth also participated as a model.

Replica

The locomotive was scrapped after their retirement. The replica, which can be seen today in the collection of the Museum, has been reconstructed in 1912 in true detail. 2010, the replica in the special exhibition " Adler, Rocket and Co. " was presented in the Transport Museum in Nuremberg.