The Age of Revolution ANIMATING THE EARL’S GREAT ENGINE The Newcomen is RESOURCES one of South ’s finest iPads ABOUT THE ideally one between two surviving legacies of the Industrial Revolution. Built in 1795, the NEEDED: PROJECT Engine was designed to extract water from New Colliery to From January to March 2020, Museums worked with allow the exploration of deeper coal Jump Primary School to animate and project the internal workings seams. The Beam Engine ran from of the Newcomen Beam Engine at Elsecar. This project was 1795 to 1923 when it was replaced funded by Waterloo200 and Wentworth and Elsecar Great Place. by electric pumps, at its peak it Projector This pack provides lesson plans and resources to enable you to could draw up to 600 gallons per carry out your own digital Age of Revolution project in your minute. school or heritage/arts venue. The project is suitable for UKS2. The Age of Revolution project aims to broaden and deepen The Newcomen Beam Engine is the only one of its kind in the engagement in the subject of Waterloo and the period of world to remain in its original location. revolution in Europe between 1775 and 1848, engaging actively Pupils from Jump Primary used iPads to animate the internal with over 2,000 UK schools, from across the educational workings of the Engine, and then used projection mapping spectrum, in the process. This is through the provision of bespoke software to project images in the school hall. We then showcased educational materials, multimedia technology and partnerships in their work at an evening launch event at , the educational and cultural landscape to broaden the concept of projecting the finished animations onto the side of the building. education and form an education offering suited to all key stages, whilst promoting the evolution of our nation’s collective creative Your project does not have to focus on the Newcomen Beam Apps culture. Engine - you could adapt it to focus on anything with moving parts e.g. a clockwork toy, a car, or any piece of relevant local heritage NOTE You can find more information on the Newcomen Beam Engine with moving parts that may be suitable. Examples in this pack If all of your iPads are and other ‘revolutionary’ recources on the Age of Revolution have focussed on the Newcomen Engine, but you could substitute connected to the same itunes account, you will be able to Tagtool Thicket Dunamapper iMovie Adobe Spark Adobe Spark website here this for another object/item of your choice, which pupils could just buy the apps once and pro classic Video Post https://ageofrevolution.org/200-object/newcomen-beam-engine/ visit and/or research as part of the project. download them to all devices. £8.99 £1.99 £4.99 FREE FREE FREE Introduction to Tagtool SESSION 1 Interface: is that all the students’ iPads will project at the same time Introduction to TagTool UKS2 • Overview allowing the students to create together in real time. Students • Testing/experimenting and play will see their work side by side as if on one big canvas, and will Learning objectives • Let the pupils have freeform play to enable be able to edit their own projections alongside everyone else’s. them to feel comfortable with the software (from the National Curriculum): Key Teaching Points If you are unable to connect to wifi you can connect each Design and Technology: Introduction The best way to understand Tagtool is to experiment with the student’s work individually to the projector to share their work Pupils will develop their knowledge, understanding Introduction to the Newcomen Engine and app. There are a series of useful tutorials by the makers of the full size. and skills needed to engage in an iterative process of Elsecar Heritage Centre (or your chosen app, as well as our own tutorial (see link in resources checklist): designing and making. object and venue) – if possible, pupils should https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0jLqjHbmiE&t=2s It is important that the students see and experience their Understand how key events and individuals in design visit or research to lay the groundwork for animations to enable them to gain instant feedback and raise and technology have helped shape the world. their project. Give students a brief overview of Tagtool. Ask the students to their aspirations for what’s possible. create their names and experiment with animating them. Let History: • What is the Newcomen Engine? the students have time to work out how to use the software and Pupils make a local history study (depending on what • Why is it important? experiment – they will pick a lot up from just doing this. Once you have chosen as your project focus) the students have created and animated their names, get them • What did it do? Key vocabulary • Newcomen to share them with the rest of the group. Key skills linked to objectives: Engine Pupils will experiment with digital technology • Coal If all your iPads are all running the latest software and are Pupils will learn about TagTool and how to animate • Mining connected to the same wifi, you can use 1 iPad as a server to using it. • iPad connect all the other iPads with. The ’master’ iPad needs to be Pupils will increase their knowledge of the Newcomen • Animation connected to a projector. Engine or chosen focus • TagTool • Mechanical Connect the iPads to the main Tagtool ‘master’ iPad and project the students work. The great thing about this approach

RESOURCE iPad iPads- one TagTool pro app online TagTool tutorial LIST between two https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0jLqjHbmiE&t=2s Key Key Teaching Points SESSION 2 vocabulary Animating the Engine Introduction to animation UKS2 Use an image of the Newcomen Engine, or your chosen item, and take a photo using the camera. Then import that into TagTool. • Newcomen Engine • Coal Learning objectives Use the image as a template for pupils to draw around. Remind (from the National Curriculum): • Mining pupils that each element they want to animate needs to be drawn • iPad on a separate layer. Once all the layers are drawn, pupils can Design and Technology: animate the different elements as necessary by selected each layer. Pupils will develop their knowledge, understanding and skills needed to engage in an iterative process of Once all layers have been animated, you can delete the original designing and making. picture/diagram in the background and leave only what the pupils Pupils will understand how key events and individuals have drawn. in design and technology have helped shape the world. At the end of the task, project each pair’s animated work onto the History: wall of the learning space using the projector. Pupils make a local history study (depending on what Discussion points you have chosen as your project focus) Ask pupils: Key skills linked to objectives: If you were to design your own Newcomen Engine, what would it Pupils will experiment with digital technologies look like? Pupils will learn how to animate objects How would it move? What colour would it be? Pupils will gain a broader understanding of how What would you add to it to improve the design? mechanical objects work Discuss the idea that the invention of the Newcomen Engine enabled coal mining to become much more efficient and also burned coal as a fuel - what impact has this had on the world? Jump primary pupils drew around this diagram of the internal Discuss climate change – to discuss what the pupils could do to workings of the Newcomen Engine and animated different layers. iPad TagTool pro app online RESOURCE iPads- one make the Engine more environmentally friendly e.g. renewable They then deleted the background image to leave only what they had LIST between two TagTool tutorial https://www.youtube. Projector com/watch?v=Y0jLqjHbmiE&t=2s energy. drawn over. Get pupils to create at least 4 or 5 different images, either Key Teaching Points default pictures from the app or photographs/videos they SESSION 3 Introduction to Thicket have taken themselves. Projection mapping UKS2 Thicket is an audio visual playground that allows anyone to create beautiful sounds and pictures from simple finger touches. Get pupils to bring their iPads one by one to the projector. This will mirror the iPad screen display. Set up your Learning objectives There is more information on using Thicket here – https://apps. learning space with a blank wall with some different objects (from the National Curriculum): intervalstudios.com/thicket/ spread across it e.g. gym mats, boxes, chairs etc. Pupils must manipulate the different images they have taken to Design and Technology: project them onto these different objects and make sure the In pairs, get students to experiment with the Thicket app. There is no Pupils will develop their knowledge, understanding shape of the image is correct to map onto the shape of the right or wrong way to use the app. This is a way to introduce children and skills needed to engage in an iterative process of objects. designing and making. to simple projection mapping before they progress to Dynamapper. Understand how key events and individuals in design Once this is done, import the animations the children and technology have helped shape the world. Introduction to Dynamapper created in session 2 and experiment with projection mapping these onto the wall. Dynamapper allows you to create History: stunning visual shows on your device Pupils make a local history study (depending on what Additional optional activities: You could edit all of the news reports and footage together with the by connecting it to a projector. Get pupils to film their progress throughout the project, you have chosen as your project focus) projections to create one longer film showcasing the whole project. This Key creating a ‘how we made it’ video. Pupils should give short could be projected onto the wall of your learning space, or onto an There is more information on interviews about what they are doing and how and why. external building wall. Key skills linked to objectives: using Dynamapper here – https:// vocabulary This allows them to demonstrate and evidence that they Pupils will expand on knowledge of digital know the purpose of what they are learning. dynamapper.net as well as our online • Newcomen Engine Find out more about how Jump Primary School carried out the project technologies gained in previous lessons Using the additional information below, get pupils to tutorial (see link in resources checklist) • Coal here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8IIQPAHBqo&t=3s Pupils will learn about projection mapping and create a news report on the Newcomen Engine using what • Mining develop spacial awareness skills they have learnt. Give each pair of pupils a date or event Have a look at their fantastic projectons here – https://www.youtube. Allow pupils to experiment • iPad com/watch?v=p5P-THi1wK8&t=40s with the app. to create a news report about. Pupils should write up the information in their own words in the style of an interview Or have a look at the Newcomen Beam Engine/Projection mapping and then rehearse and film their report using iPads. resources on the Age of Revolution website here – LINK TO BE iPad Dynamapper app SUPPLIED and read a blog about how we delivered the project here – RESOURCE iPads- one online tutorial - https://www.youtube.com/ Thicket app LIST between two Get pupils to create posters using the information they have LINK TO BE SUPPLIED. watch?v=JK9Qj8qVWUQ&t=2s learnt for their news reports. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Other things to consider/ on the Newcomen Beam Engine: 1815 background information The Earl Fitzwiliam and Lord Milton came They were very popular. Characters down to see the first day of production. The Fourth Earl Fitzwilliam – paid for What happened Imagine what it was like living in the houses The distillery closed in January 1795 the coal mine to be sunk and the Engine to during this year? nearby. 1818, but the road it was on be built. He called it his ‘Great Engine’. (next to the engine is still known as He lived in nearby . Tar distillery explosion on Do you think they would have come down Distillery Side). Distillery Side for a look too? What happened Benjamin Hall – the Earl’s Steward (who during this year? was in charge of making sure all the building The distillery was very close to the work was done properly) cottages on Distillery Side. The new shafts at Elsecar Characters John Bargh – an engineer from Chesterfield Mr Parker –came down from the North New Colliery were finished, who designed and built the engine How do you think and the engine began its of , at the request of the Earl thepeople living working life, pumping water Martha Hague – helped her brother to dig Fitzwilliam, to start a new coal tar distillery. herefelt when they On the day that work started on the shafts from Elsecar’s first deep coal the shafts. She worked the horse gin, which He experimented in a barn at Skiers Hall heard the explosion? pulled the soil and rubble up to the surface. and the first ‘sod’ was dug, the Earl paid for a before carrying the stills down to the mine. bottle of sod ale to celebrate. Elsecar New Colliery by horse and cart. How far away for (Martha’s brother) and John Hague you think it could When the shafts were Richard Watson – in charge of the team who Very soon after the new coal mine was Mr Parker began to charge the new stills on be heard? finished, the Earl Fitzwilliam dug the shafts finished, new houses were built for families coming in to the area to work and Elsecar September 19th 1814, watched by the Lord paid for a celebration feast. Milton and the Earl Fitzwilliam himself. Other things to consider/ village was started. The houses were The distillery made considered to be very spacious and modern coal tar, varnishes background information The process was very dangerous, and and lamp black, for the time, with their own gardens and during the first six months there were a Before the New Colliery was built the area allotments. How do you think the new which were where the engine now stands was part of number of explosions at the distillery - the shipped out residents would have felt moving into the first being on January 1st 1815, when the Simon Wood and would have been covered Earl’s new village? by canal. in trees. condensor blew up. Characters Characters with all the new activity, noise and smells from the workshops and the huge chimney We don’t know the names of the The Earl Fitzwilliam – the workshops towering overhead. 1836 people involved, but characters you 1850 belonged to him, and he was very proud of could think about might include - how modern and up to date they were. He In 1850 the Elsecar workshops would have brought many rich and famous people to been very modern and impressive. Lots of What happened The people who made the new beam. What happened see them. visitors came to see them, including royalty. during this year? How do you think they would have felt knowing during this year? Do you think there was a celebration that their work was going to be part of the Earl’s Benjamin Biram – the Earl’s Steward. He when they opened? A new cast-iron beam was made Great Engine? The new Elsecar workshops was in charge of the new workshops. His for the engine (the same beam that (now the Elsecar Heritage dad, Joshua, had been the Earl’s steward When Wath Road was straightened, is in the engine house now). The The people who brought the beam down the hill Centre) opened. They were built before him. a lot of the existing workers’ houses old wooden beam had rotted and on a horse and cart – imagine how heavy it by the Earl Fitzwilliam to serve (e.g. Station Row and Reform Row) needed to be replaced. would have been, and how many horses his coal mines, ironworks, and People who worked at the new workshops lost their allotments because the land you would have needed to pull it. – they might already have lived in Elsecar, At the time, Elsecar had two his estate. The new workshops was needed for the new road. or might have come to Elsecar specially to ironworks – one where the heritage were up to date and new, with How do you think the people in The people who lifted the beam into the railway is now, and one up the room for blacksmiths, leather work for the Earl. the houses would have felt engine house – how hard do you think hill at Millton. The furnaces ran workers, carpenters and more. about that? through the night and you could it would have been to lift? Other things to consider/ see them for miles around. As part of the new development, background information Other things to consider/ Wath Road was straightened, The new beam was cast at the and new pubs, shops and houses Before the workshops were built, Elsecar Milton Ironworks and brought background information were built along Hill Street, was much smaller, although it had a busy down to Elsecar by horse and cart. Bringing the new beam down into making the village look and feel ironworks, coal mine and canal. Elsecar and lifting it into the engine very different. The new beam had to be lifted up The area where the workshops were built house would have been a real to the top of the engine house by was mostly fields. Imagine how spectacle – imagine living in one of hand, using a winch – it weighs different it would have been over 4 tonnes. the houses nearby and watching it when they opened in 1850 – all happen. Characters Characters The people working on the pumps/engine The people working on the demolition 1928 People living in the houses nearby People living in the houses nearby Other things to consider/ Other things to consider/ background information background information What happened 1937 Imagine being one of the people in Imagine being one of the people in the during this year? the houses nearby when the old houses nearby when the chimney was What happened knocked down. The new electric pumps that had engine was brought back into use. been installed in 1923 to replace How do you think they would have during this year? Do you think it made a noise? the Newcomen engine were felt seeing it running again? damaged in a flood. Until they The old house and How do you think they felt? Remember, they would have seen could be mended the old steam chimney were knocked down Imagine being one of the people the engine nodding up and engine was brought back into use. carrying out the work. When the were lit, the down all their lives, but the new smoke made the neighbours’ electric pumps were clean and We know that they were very careful washing all sooty. the old engine ran on coal, about how they did it, and tried to leave which was smokey and smelly. as much of the floor and foundation walls in place as possible. How difficult do you think it might have been to get Why do you think they might the old engine working again? have done that? 1700 1815 1928 Tar Distillery explosion on Distillery Side Electric pumps damaged in flood. Newcomen Engine brought back into use for a short period 1712 1836 builds his first atmospheric Wooden beam replaced by large cast-iron beam, mine pumping engine 1937 made at the Milton Ironworks. Other innovations, Newcomen Engine boiler house and chimney 1775 including parallel link motion, added. demolished James Watt builds his first ‘improved’ atmospheric engines (with separate condenser) 1837 1939-1945 New waggonway network completed between Second World War 1794/5 Elsecar canal basin and the Milton Ironworks 1947 Newcomen-type Engine built at Elsecar by the 1848 Earl Fitzwilliam of Wentworth House Nationalisation of the Coal Mining Industry. Pumping Elsecar Low Colliery ( Colliery) opens stations taken into control of the National Coal Board (NCB) 1795 1850 Elsecar New Colliery Opens Elsecar New Yard workshops built 1950s Newcomen Engine falls into complete disrepair 1795 1853 First furnace established at Elsecar Ironworks Simonwood Colliery opens and Elsecar New 1983 by Darwin and Co. Ltd. of Colliery (then called Elsecar Mid Colliery) closes. Elsecar Main Colliery closes 1795/6 Newcomen Engine retained as a pumping station First workers cottages built in Elsecar, for the wider valley. 1984/5 at Old Row and Distillery Side Miners’ Strike (first strike action at Colliery) 1853-1856 1798 Crimean War 1987 Elsecar branch of the Dearne and Elsecar Workshops (formerly Elsecar New Yard) close Dove Canal Opens 1900 1994 1800 1905/8 Elsecar Heritage Centre opened by HRH Elizabeth Elsecar Main Colliery Opens II, in the restored buildings of the Elsecar Workshops. Denationalisation of the Coal Industry – pumping 1800 stations closed. New workers cottages built at New Row (now 1918 Station Row) to designs by architect John Carr Pumping Association formed 1801 1920 2000 First blast furnace established at the Milton Hemingfield Colliery, Elsecar and Rawmarsh Ironworks by the Walker Brothers of Pumping Stations sold to the South Yorkshire 2012/15 Pumping Association by the Earl Fitzwilliam Newcomen Engine restored by Barnsley Museums (with funding from the NHLF and Historic England) 1802 1923 Original replaced (to give greater New electric pumps installed replacing the 2016 pumping capacity) Newcomen Engine. Newcomen Engine retained Newcomen Engine re-opened by HRH the Earl of as emergency back-up pump. Wessex 1803 – 1815 Napoleonic Wars 1928 2019 Electric pumps damaged in flood. Newcomen Former boiler house uncovered by community dig as part 1880s Engine brought back into use for a short period of the Elsecar Heritage Action Zone and Wentworth and Elsecar and Milton Ironworks close Elsecar Great Place projects.