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,...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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 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...

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...

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...

with a length of 422 feet. She was powered by a 600 hp 2-cylinder compound steam engine, barque-rigged on three masts, and had a top speed of 121⁄2 knots...

steam engines GB 189923234 (A), 1899, Improvements in steam generators GB 190006487 (A), 1901, An improvement in starting valves for compound steam engines...

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

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

A steam turbine or steam turbine engine is a machine or heat engine that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam and uses it to do mechanical work...

a compound steam engine and an exhaust steam turbine, with reduction gearing for both engines onto the same propeller shaft. In 1948 her compound engine...

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...

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

century, to useful pumps for mining in 1700, and then to Watt's improved steam engine designs in the late 18th century. It is these later designs, introduced...

Chemical compound, combination of two or more elements Plastic compounding, a method of preparing plastic formulations Compound engine, a steam engine in which...

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...

Advanced steam technology (sometimes known as modern steam) reflects an approach to the technical development of the steam engine intended for a wider...

steam engine Feb 28, 1984 4489558 Compound internal combustion engine and method for its use Dec 25, 1984 4489560 Compound internal combustion engine...