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Horse engine house, Kilconquhar, Fife |
Many horse engines were used to power threshing machines in Scotland. The first was built by the machine's inventor, Andrew Meikle, in 1787, at Phantassie, East Lothian.
Horse-engines had an earlier history too – dating back to at least the 16th century – in industries as diverse as coal mining and wool carding.
This horse engine house has an unusually high, steep roof, suggesting that it may have originally been thatched. Horses walking in a circle provided the power to drive a threshing machine in the adjacent barn. |
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