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A Corliss steam engine – the valve gear is on the right of the cylinder block, on the left of the picture. A Corliss steam engine (or Corliss engine) is a steam engine, fitted with rotary valves and with variable valve timing patented in 1849, invented by and named after the US engineer George Henry Corliss of Providence, Rhode Island.
George Henry Corliss (June 2, 1817 – February 21, 1888) was an American mechanical engineer and inventor, who developed the Corliss steam engine, which was a great improvement over any other stationary steam engine of its time. The Corliss engine is widely considered one of the more notable engineering achievements of the 19th century.
1849 (): George Henry Corliss develops and markets the Corliss-type steam engine, a four-valve counterflow engine with separate steam admission and exhaust valves. Trip valve mechanisms provide sharp cutoff of steam during admission stroke. The governor is used to control the cut off instead of the throttle valve.
The Corliss Engine displayed at the International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures and Products of the Soil and Mine of 1876. The last major improvement to the steam engine was the Corliss engine. [6] Named after its inventor, George Henry Corliss, this stationary steam engine was introduced to the world in 1849.
In 1882, George A. Rentschler, J. C. Hooven, Henry C. Sohn, George H. Helvey, and James E. Campbell merged the firm with the iron works of Sohn and Rentschler, [1] [2] and adopted the name Hooven, Owens, Rentschler Co. In 1883 the firm began the manufacture of Corliss steam engines, [3] producing a total of 700 such engines by 1901. [1]
George Henry Corliss (1817–1888), inventor of the Corliss steam engine; George W. Corliss (1834–1903), American Civil War recipient of the Medal of Honor; Guy C. H. Corliss (1858–1937), American judge and justice of the Supreme Court of North Dakota; Jack Corliss, scientist and discoverer of undersea hydrothermal vents
Engines at the New England Wireless and Steam Museum in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. The George H. Corliss engine, 150 hp (110 kW), probably the only surviving engine designed and built by George H. Corliss that is running under steam today; William A. Harris engines; Engines at the The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan
A steam engine fitted with rotary valves and having variable valve timing was invented by and named for an American Engineer, George Henry Corliss, in 1849. Engines fitted with Corliss valve gear offered the best thermal efficiency of any type of stationary steam engine until the refinement of the uniflow steam engine and steam turbine in the ...