enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Power Jets W.2 - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Jets_W.2

   The Power Jets W.2 was a British turbojet engine designed by Frank Whittle and Power Jets (Research and Development) Ltd. Like the earlier Power Jets W.1 , the reverse-flow combustion configuration included a double-sided centrifugal compressor , 10 combustion chambers and an axial-flow turbine with air-cooled disc.

3. Cooper-Bessemer - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper-Bessemer

   World War II poster promoting Cooper-Bessemer engines. Cooper-Bessemer was a brand of industrial engines and compressors manufactured in Mount Vernon, Ohio.The Cooper-Bessemer Corporation was formed when the C. & G. Cooper Company (founded in 1833) and the Bessemer Gas Engine Company (founded in 1899) merged in 1929.

4. Jump start (vehicle) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_start_(vehicle)

   Jump starting a vehicle Crocodile clips, also called automotive clips, on a set of jumper cables. A jump start, also called a boost, is a procedure of starting a motor vehicle (most commonly cars or trucks) that has a discharged battery. A temporary connection is made to the battery of another vehicle, or to some other external power source.

5. Aircraft engine starting - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_engine_starting

   An interesting feature of all three German jet engine designs that saw production of any kind before May 1945: the German BMW 003, Junkers Jumo 004 and Heinkel HeS 011 axial-flow turbojet engine designs was the starter system, which consisted of a Riedel 10 hp (7.5 kW) flat twin two-stroke air-cooled engine hidden in the intake, and essentially ...

6. Power Jets WU - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Jets_WU

   The combustion chamber was connected to the compressor outlet by a very large single spiral duct giving the engine an asymmetrical appearance. Whittle designed the centrifugal compressor to develop about 4:1 pressure ratio when, as far as he was aware, the best previously demonstrated performance in a single stage was about 2.5:1.

7. J-W Energy Company - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-W_Energy_Company

   In May 1976, J-W Power Company fabricated its first compressor package, an Ariel JGM/2 compressor driven by a Witte engine rated 18 BHP at 1400 RPM, in a small shop in Longview, TX. Needing a place to test his ideas for improving gas compressor packages, Mr. Westerman constructed a larger plant in January 1978 on the outskirts of Longview, TX ...