The Bourke engine was an attempt by Russell Bourke, in the 1920s, to improve the two-stroke internal combustion engine. Despite finishing his design and...
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Scotch yoke (category Engine technology)
various internal combustion engines, such as the Bourke engine, SyTech engine, and many hot air engines and steam engines. The term scotch yoke continues...
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piston engines that have various claimed advantages, many of which see little if any current use: Bourke engine Free-piston engine IRIS engine Opposed-piston...
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Bourke may refer to: Bourke (surname) Bourke Court House, a heritage-listed courthouse in Bourke, Bourke Shire, New South Wales Bourke Place, a skyscraper...
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backward are seen. Bourke engine Four-stroking Junkers Jumo 205 Kadenacy effect Rolls-Royce Crecy Rotary engine Twingle engine Stroke (engine) Two- and four-stroke...
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engines that utilize compression rather than spark ignition, by means of very high compression ratios (14–25:1), such as the diesel engine or Bourke engine...
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to Proclus and perhaps even to the time of Archimedes. Beam compass Bourke engine John Farey Jr. Hypocycloid Hypotrochoid Tusi couple Useless machine...
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or blimps and v4 and v8 versions can be derived. The Bourke engine, designed by Russell Bourke, of Petaluma, CA, is an opposed rigidly connected twin...
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Pieter Bourke is an Australian musician, composer, producer and audio engineer. From 1995 he has recorded several projects with Dead Can Dance founder...
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A straight-six engine (also referred to as an inline-six engine; abbreviated I6 or L6) is a piston engine with six cylinders arranged in a straight line...
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2-bank V engine as opposed to a "true" W engine. W engines are significantly less common than V engines. Compared with a V engine, a W engine is typically...
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A flat engine is a piston engine where the cylinders are located on either side of a central crankshaft. Flat engines are also known as horizontally opposed...
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A single-cylinder engine, sometimes called a thumper, is a piston engine with one cylinder. This engine is often used for motorcycles, motor scooters...
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In internal combustion engines, a split-single design is a type of two-stroke where two cylinders share a single combustion chamber. The first production...
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The split-cycle engine is a type of internal combustion engine. In a conventional Otto cycle engine, each cylinder performs four strokes per cycle: intake...
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Roger Bourke White (1911–2002), a Cleveland businessman, co-founded Glastic Corporation with Richard C. Newpher. Glastic, located in South Euclid, Ohio...
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A straight-14 engine or inline-14 engine is a fourteen-cylinder piston engine with all fourteen cylinders mounted in a straight line along the crankcase...
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Australian biographer Chris Bourke, which details the band's career from forming to just after their breakup in 1996. According to Bourke, "Something So Strong"...
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2009. Bourke, Edward J. (2003). Bound for Australia: The loss of the emigrant ship Tayleur at Lambay on the coast of Ireland. Dublin: Edward Bourke. ISBN 095230273X...
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Cylinder head porting (redirect from Porting (engine))
process of modifying the intake and exhaust ports of an internal combustion engine to improve their air flow. Cylinder heads, as manufactured, are usually...
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Swashplate (redirect from Swashplate engine)
drives in engine designs. It was originally invented to replace a crankshaft, and is one of the most popular concepts used in crankless engines. It was...
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Reciprocating electric motor (redirect from Solenoid engine)
the steam engines of the day, simply replacing the piston-and-cylinder with an electromagnetic solenoid. Page's reciprocating electric engine 1844 Grüel...
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Geurie was the scene of a notable train crash when the ‘Bourke mail’ train collided with the engine of a stationary goods train on Friday 23 August 1963...
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Dallas Crane (redirect from Pat Bourke (musician))
to a record label, EMI. Chris Brodie was replaced in Dallas Crane by Pat Bourke on bass guitar in early 2001. Twenty Four Seven received widely positive...
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the wheelbase and body of the '53 coupes and hardtops designed by Robert Bourke, as head of the design team Studebaker contracted from Raymond Loewy Associates...
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Building was constructed in the same year attached to the engine room which ran along Little Bourke Street. They were both designed by the Melbourne Electricity...
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was vice president of corporate staffs, then in 1980 replaced William O. Bourke as executive vice-president of North American Automotive Operations (the...
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Crank (mechanism) (section Engines)
bicycle via the pedals. Treadle sewing machine Almost all reciprocating engines use cranks (with connecting rods) to transform the back-and-forth motion...
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Rhombic drive (category Engine technology)
car engine where it allowed perfect balancing of the inertial forces on both pistons. A current example of its use is on beta type-Stirling engines; the...
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Ledger rocks all over America". Coventry Live. Retrieved 15 October 2024. Bourke, Fionnuala (21 December 2014). "Band Aid memories for Coventry singer Hazel...
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