Stirling engine
mechanical engineering
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conversion of energy sources
- In energy conversion: Stirling engine
Many of the early high-pressure steam boilers exploded because of poor materials and faulty methods of construction. The resultant casualties and property losses motivated Robert Stirling of Scotland to invent a power cycle that operated without a high-pressure boiler. In his engine (patented…
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invention by Stirling
- In Robert Stirling
…as the inventor of the Stirling engine, a type of external-combustion engine. He also invented optical devices and other instruments.
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petroleum power technology
- In history of technology: Petroleum
The hot-air engine depends for its power on the expansion and displacement of air inside a cylinder, heated by the external and continuous combustion of the fuel. Even before the exposition of the laws of thermodynamics, Stirling had devised a cycle of heat transfer that was…
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