The "three-stage expansion steam reciprocating engine" housed in the university's Meiji Maru Maritime Museum XNUMXth Anniversary Museum has been certified by the Japan Society of Marine Engineering as a "trajectory of marine engineering - pioneering achievements for the future -". .

This machine was manufactured as an experimental device for students of the Tokyo University of Mercantile Marine, and after being used until 1945, it was stored in the same museum.

The three-stage expansion steam engine was widely used as the main engine of ships until around 1945, but this engine is the only existing one in Japan, and its historical and maritime educational importance was recognized. becomes.

[Three-stage expansion steam reciprocating engine]