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150 yr old turbine on show in Kendal Museum
A Kendal device that took electricity to the world. BBC Cumbria reports on a “Vortex” turbine shown in the Museum of Lakeland Life in Kendal and involved in the early days of taking electricity to homes, businesses and streets across the world for the first time.
The turbine is the first Vortex to be made by Williamson Brothers in 1856 in their Kendal factory. More than 400 were eventually made and they were exported all over the world. The Kendal factory is now owned by Gilbert Gilkes and Gordon Limited and they still supply and refurbish turbines. They have a small room on site with examples of some of their early turbines dating back to the mid 19th Century.
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