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Used early on in electrical generation and to power ships, turbines were bladed wheels that created rotary motion when high pressure steam was passed through them. The efficiency of large steam turbines was considerably better than the best compound engines , while also being much simpler, more reliable, smaller and lighter all at the same time.
At the end of this power stroke, the steam valve was reopened, and the weight of the pump rods pulled the beam down, lifting the piston and drawing steam into the cylinder again. Using the piston and beam allowed the Newcomen engine to power pumps at different levels throughout the mine, as well as eliminating the need for any high-pressure steam.
"The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines, from one city to another, almost as fast as birds fly, fifteen or twenty miles in an hour" [65] The Italian automobile model company, Brumm, made a 1/43 scale model of this steam carriage in their 'Old Fire' series, a series of 8 models of important early steam ...
A claimant to the title of the first ship to make the transatlantic trip substantially under steam power is the British-built Dutch-owned Curaçao, a wooden 438-ton vessel built in Dover and powered by two 50 hp engines, which crossed from Hellevoetsluis, near Rotterdam on 26 April 1827 to Paramaribo, Surinam on 24 May, spending 11 days under ...
Charles Keen began constructing a steam car in 1940 with the intention of restarting steam car manufacturing. Keen's family had a long history of involvement with steam propulsion going back to his great-great-grandfather in the 1830s, who helped build early steam locomotives. His first car, a Plymouth Coupe, used a Stanley engine.
In the European part of the USSR, almost all steam locomotives were replaced by diesel and electric locomotives in the 1960s; in Siberia and Central Asia, state records verify that L-class 2-10-0 s and LV-class 2-10-2 s were not retired until 1985. Until 1994, Russia had at least 1,000 steam locomotives stored in operable condition in case of ...
Train enthusiasts and history buffs alike will soon have a new Southeast Asian destination, as Vietnam prepares to unveil a revamped pair of vintage steam locomotives from the 1960s.
Edward Pritchard was born in Caulfield, Melbourne, Australia on 28 August 1930. [1] Pritchard was 12 years old when his father explained the operation of a steam engine to him, [2] and by 14 he had worked out an infinitely variable gear device for his bicycle.