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Margaret A. Wilcox (1838 – March 30, 1912) was an American mechanical engineer and inventor best recognized for her late-nineteenth-century discoveries. The automotive heating system, her most famous invention, established the foundation for modern vehicle temperature control. She also contributed to the development of home appliance technology.
Heat treating furnace at 1,800 °F (980 °C) Heat treating (or heat treatment) is a group of industrial, thermal and metalworking processes used to alter the physical, and sometimes chemical, properties of a material. The most common application is metallurgical. Heat treatments are also used in the manufacture of many other materials, such as ...
Block heater. Electrical cord for powering a block heater. A block heater is used in cold climates to warm an engine prior to starting. They are mostly used for car engines; however, they have also been used in aircraft engines. The most common design of block heater is an electrical heating element embedded in the engine block .
1816 – Robert Stirling invented Stirling engine, a type of hot air engine. 1824 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot developed the Carnot cycle and the associated hypothetical Carnot heat engine that is the basic theoretical model for all heat engines. This gives the first early insight into the second law of thermodynamics.
Induction heating is used in many industrial processes, such as heat treatment in metallurgy, Czochralski crystal growth and zone refining used in the semiconductor industry, and to melt refractory metals that require very high temperatures. It is also used in induction cooktops . An induction heater consists of an electromagnet and an ...
royalpurple .com. Royal Purple is an American manufacturer which produces lubricants for automotive, industrial, marine, and racing use. [2] It is known primarily for its line of synthetic Royal Purple Motor Oil products used in gasoline and diesel engines. [3] [4] [5] They also produce other fluids including gear oil, transmission fluid, power ...
A gasoline heater is a small gasoline-fueled space-heater. Fixed versions were originally used mainly for supplemental heat for passenger compartments of automobiles and aircraft, with the latter still in production. Portable versions were also made. Gasoline heaters were commercially available on automobiles starting in the 1930s with ...
An autoclave is a machine used to carry out industrial and scientific processes requiring elevated temperature and pressure in relation to ambient pressure and/or temperature. Autoclaves are used before surgical procedures to perform sterilization and in the chemical industry to cure coatings and vulcanize rubber and for hydrothermal synthesis.