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Arthur Woolf

Arthur Woolf (1766-1837) was a Camborne-born engineer who patented the high-efficiency Woolf compound steam engine in London in 1804-05, then returned to Cornwall around 1812 to apply it to mine pumping, erecting compound engines at several Cornish mines from 1814.

Mines operated

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Consolidated Mines Cornwall 1819–?

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