A compound steam engine unit is a type of steam engine where steam is expanded in two or more stages. A typical arrangement for a compound engine is that...

marine engines in the golden age of steam. These examples and compound turbines are the main but not the only uses of compounding in engines, see below...

A steeple compound engine is a form of tandem compound steam engine that is constructed as an inverted vertical engine. Because of their great height,...

A marine steam engine is a steam engine that is used to power a ship or boat. This article deals mainly with marine steam engines of the reciprocating...

high-pressure compound steam engine. In this way he made an outstanding contribution to the development and perfection of the Cornish engine. Woolf left...

A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure...

Stationary steam engines are fixed steam engines used for pumping or driving mills and factories, and for power generation. They are distinct from locomotive...

A compound locomotive is a steam locomotive which is powered by a compound engine, a type of steam engine where steam is expanded in two or more stages...

Hercules was a Dutch steam paddle tugboat. She was also the first vessel to effectively use a compound steam engine. In about 1890, a discussion about...

expansion valve is a device in steam engine valve gear that improves engine efficiency. It operates by closing off the supply of steam early, before the piston...

improves efficiency. With compound engines it was possible for trans ocean steamers to carry less coal than freight. Compound steam engine powered ships enabled...

he was the only executive till 1849. The invention of the marine compound steam engine is Roentgen's main scientific achievement. Gerhard Moritz Roentgen...

A beam engine is a type of steam engine where a pivoted overhead beam is used to apply the force from a vertical piston to a vertical connecting rod. This...

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...

The Willans engine or central valve engine was a high-speed stationary steam engine used mainly for electricity generation around the start of the 20th...

A traction engine is a steam-powered tractor used to move heavy loads on roads, plough ground or to provide power at a chosen location. The name derives...

The uniflow type of steam engine uses steam that flows in one direction only in each half of the cylinder. Thermal efficiency is increased by having a...

Cornish engine is a type of steam engine developed in Cornwall, England, mainly for pumping water from a mine. It is a form of beam engine that uses steam at...

thermal engines- Internal combustion (gasoline, diesel and gas turbine-Brayton cycle engines) and External combustion engines (steam piston, steam turbine...

The first recorded rudimentary steam engine was the aeolipile mentioned by Vitruvius between 30 and 15 BC and, described by Heron of Alexandria in 1st-century...

steamship design: higher boiler pressure, an efficient and compact compound steam engine, and a hull form with modest power requirements. Before Agamemnon...

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Carl H. Ziese (1848 -1917) the constructor in 1874 of the first compound steam engine to be integrated in a German gunship. The company had so many orders...

after combustion. This concept is similar to that of compound steam engines, which expand steam in high pressure cylinders before exhausting it into low-pressure...

as a brigantine. Newfoundland had a two-cylinder compound steam engine, built by the Ouseburn Engine Works of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, which powered...

"Royal Mail Ship". She was converted to a single screw ship with a compound steam engine in 1872, and placed on the Aberdeen Line that chartered her to run...

the mill's closure the engine is still worked under steam as a museum display. At 3000 hp, the twin tandem compound steam engine is possibly the most powerful...

High-speed steam engines were one of the final developments of the stationary steam engine. They ran at a high speed, of several hundred rpm, which was...

armed with four 229 mm (9 in) guns, was powered by a single-screw compound steam engine with a top speed of 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph). Feth-i Bülend saw...

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