Experts claim dismantling the world’s oldest working rotative steam engine is ‘extremely risky’, but museum says specialist engineers have advised it can be done safely
Under that plan, the world’s oldest working rotative steam engine – the– will be dismantled and placed in storage before being reassembled at the redeveloped Ultimo site, where the power source that creates the steam will be converted from gas to electricity.
But experts have described the move as “extremely risky” given the age and “cumulative fatigue” of the steam engine, with one of Australia’s leading industrial revolution technology experts describing it as an act of “cultural vandalism”.The prized centrepiece of the museum’s 135-year-old collection, the Boulton & Watt steam engine is the largest and most historically significant among more than a dozen steam engines that form the Powerhouse’s permanent Steam Revolution exhibition.
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