Article on The Cruquius Museum in the August 1964 issue of Radio Nederland, a magazine published for international listeners to the radio station.
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Article on The Cruquius Museum in the August 1964 issue of Radio Nederland, a magazine published for international listeners to the radio station. The museum derives its name from Nicolaas Kruik (1678–1754), a Dutch land-surveyor and one of many promotors of a plan to pump the Haarlemmermeer (Haarlem lake) dry. The museum houses the largest steam engine ever built. The engine was built by Harvey & Co, of Hayle, Cornwall. The diameter of the piston is 144 inches (3.7 m). The pump started work in 1850 and it took 3 years to pump the lake dry. The museum was opened in 1933.