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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. Corliss assumed the original invention from Frederick Ellsworth Sickels (1819- 1895), who held the patent (1829) in ...
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.
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Drawing of Benjamin Hick's patent 3-cylinder steam-carriage and disc wheel from Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences, 1836.. Benjamin Hick's wheel design was used on a number of Great Western Railway engines including what may have been the world's first streamlined locomotive; an experimental prototype, nicknamed Grasshoper, driven by Brunel at 100 miles per hour (160 km/h), c.1847.
The Amoskeag Locomotive Works, in Manchester, New Hampshire, built steam locomotives at the dawn of the railroad era in the United States. The locomotive works operated as a division of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company between 1848 and 1859. Besides building locomotives for railroad use, Amoskeag also built steam fire engines until 1876.
1808 engraving of John Stevens estate, Castle Point, Hoboken. Currently the site of Stevens Institute of Technology. Replica of John Stevens' steam carriage. Col. John Stevens, III (June 26, 1749 – March 6, 1838) was an American lawyer, engineer, and inventor who constructed the first U.S. steam locomotive, first steam-powered ferry, and first U.S. commercial ferry service from his estate in ...
GB 189718087 (A), 1897, Improvements in means for providing for the free circulation of air in steam cylinders when the pistons are running and the steam cut off; GB 189921940 (A), 1899, Improvements in feed water purifiers and heaters for steam generators; GB 189922137 (A), 1899, Improvement in rotary steam engines
In that year he conducted, in behalf of a committee of the American Institute, a series of experiments on steam boilers, in which, for the first time, all losses of heat were noted, and by condensing all the steam generated, the quantity of water entrained by the steam was accurately noted. [1] Robert Henry Thurston, 1903