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{{Infobox historic engine

|name = ''Lap Engine''

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|collection = [[Science Museum Group]]

|___location = [[Science Museum, London]]

|accession = 1861-461861–46<ref name="Science-Museum-1861-46">{{Cite web

|title=Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788.

|website=Science Museum

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It is important as both an early example of a beam engine by Boulton and Watt, and also mainly as illustrating an important innovative step in their development for its ability to produce rotary motion.<ref name="Dickinson & Jenkins, 1927" /><ref name="Crowley, Lap Engine" />

The engines name comes from its use in [[Matthew Boulton]]'s [[Soho Manufactory]], where it was used to drive a line of 43 polishing or [[lapping]] machines, used for the [[Birmingham toy industry|production of buttons and buckles]].<ref name="SM, Lap Engine" /><ref name="Hulse, web, Lap Engine" />

== Innovations ==

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|isbn=0-903485-92-3

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<ref name="Crowley, Lap Engine" >{{Cite book

|last=Crowley |first=T.E.

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|isbn=0-906831-02-4

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|date=1 February 1980

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{{steam engine configurations|state=collapsed}}

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[[Category:Preserved beam engines]]