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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 ...
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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 ...
Original file (585 × 804 pixels, file size: 49 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) ... Barring engine of a large Corliss stationary steam engine. Date: 5 April 2008: Source ...
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Corliss engine(1859) Porter-Allen engine (1862) ... This series reproduces some 1,500 images from the Steam Engine Record made by George Watkins between 1930 and 1980
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