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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.
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 ...
The Corliss steam engine (patented 1849) was called the greatest improvement since James Watt. [49] The Corliss engine had greatly improved speed control and better efficiency, making it suitable to all sorts of industrial applications, including spinning.
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.
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.
A Watts-Campbell Corliss steam engine, built in 1905, had been offered to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., but they already had one, so it was given to the Mississippi Industrial Heritage Museum and installed during that year. [9] [10] The museum also owns the last steam engine ever built by the company. [6]
Harris-Corliss Steam Engine Example of a late 19th-century 350-hp Corliss-type steam engine. 1895 Atlanta: Georgia United States Located at Randall Brothers, Inc. ASME brochure. 111: 1986 Boulton & Watt Rotative Steam Engine. Oldest surviving operable rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt. 1785 Sydney: New South Wales: Australia