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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 ...
A Stanley Steamer set the world record for the fastest mile in an automobile (28.2 seconds) in 1906. This record (127 mph or 204 km/h) was not broken by any automobile until 1911, although Glen Curtiss beat the record in 1907 with a V-8-powered motorcycle at 136 mph (219 km/h). The record for steam-powered automobiles was not broken until 2009.
This was not a model but a fully enclosed single-cylinder commercial power unit of 1 to 1.5 HP designed to drive generators or fans or pumps. It stood 22 inches tall with a 10-inch flywheel and weighed about 120 lb. Preston Services [ 21 ] have stated that there were both slide valve and piston valve versions, only 247 were made between 1934 ...
1125 (): In Reims, according to William of Malmesbury, an organ was powered by heated water. He claims it was built by Pope Sylvester II. [1] Late 15th century AD: Leonardo Da Vinci described the Architonnerre, a steam-powered cannon. [2] 1551 (): Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf describes a steam turbine-like device for rotating a spit. [3]
Where electrical power or rotating parts are not readily available, other methods may drive fans. High-pressure gases such as steam can drive a small turbine, and high-pressure liquids can drive a pelton wheel, either of which can provide the rotational drive for a fan.
Solomon Cook then constructed a steam engine for the mill. This was not the first commercial steam engine made in the Colony, there was a steam-driven flour mill and saw mill built at Guildford in the mid-1840s by Walkinshaw Cowan. [19] [20] [21] [22]
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Steam-powered showman's engine from England. The history of steam road vehicles comprises the development of vehicles powered by a steam engine for use on land and independent of rails, whether for conventional road use, such as the steam car and steam waggon, or for agricultural or heavy haulage work, such as the traction engine.