Resolution was an early beam engine, installed between 1781 and 1782 at Coalbrookdale as a water-returning engine to power the blast furnaces and ironworks...

reciprocal of the unit in the last place Resolution (beam engine), an early steam engine at Coalbrookdale Chiral resolution, a process in stereochemistry for...

support of the engine. Most house-built engines were early beam engines. A 'bob wall' in the engine house supported the pivot axle of the beam or 'bob'. This...

is an early beam engine built by the partnership of Boulton and Watt. The engine was constructed in 1777 and worked until 1848. The engine is most obviously...

device used for single-acting beam engines, particularly (though not exclusively) Cornish engines. The earlier atmospheric engines also used cataracts, but...

and crankshaft: Beam engines have a rocking beam providing the connection between the vertical cylinder and crankshaft. Table engines have the crosshead...

The Lap Engine is a beam engine designed by James Watt, built by Boulton and Watt in 1788. It is now preserved at the Science Museum, London. It is important...

The Samsung i8520 (also known as Beam, or previously Halo) is a projector-enabled smartphone produced by Samsung. Its main feature is a built-in DLP WVGA...

The Newcomen Memorial Engine (sometimes called the Coventry Canal Engine) is a preserved beam engine in Dartmouth, Devon. It was preserved as a memorial...

uneven lines. Higher resolutions are common. Before about 1992, the year Hewlett-Packard made the LaserJet 4, built around a Canon engine, most page printers...

This was used to work a beam engine, in which a large wooden beam rocked upon a central fulcrum. On the other side of the beam was a chain attached to...

travel. Steam engines normally use double-acting cylinders. However, early steam engines, such as atmospheric engines and some beam engines, were single-acting...

knots. Length was 248.6m, and beam was 32.3m. She was propelled by two 8-cylinder two-stroke slow speed crosshead diesel engines with a total power output...

a beam, driven by a steam engine, into circular motion using a 'planet', a cogwheel fixed at the end of a rod connected to the beam of the engine. With...

the Industrial Revolution in the middle of the 18th century. The first beam engines did not generate power by rotating a shaft but were developed as water...

256 PS (188 kW; 252 bhp) 3.6-liter engine. The Legacy still offers standard all-wheel drive and horizontally-opposed engine layouts, but discontinues the manual...

engineer. In 1765, he began experimenting with working models of steam-engine-powered vehicles for the French Army, intended for transporting cannons...

U-shape cantilever beam. The reported sensitivity is 403 mVrms/T with a resolution 143 nT. Kádár et al. also chose the micro-torsional beam as the mechanical...

D. B. (1966). The Cornish Beam Engine. Truro, Cornwall: D. B. Barton Ltd. Howard, Bridget (2002). Mr. Lean and the Engine Reporters. Camborne: Trevithick...

with the upper beam. Building - Each ASR-9 site of installation received a prefabricated metal building with a dedicated generator engine room. The building...

A connecting rod, also called a 'con rod', is the part of a piston engine which connects the piston to the crankshaft. Together with the crank, the connecting...

Ion beam analysis (IBA) is an important family of modern analytical techniques involving the use of MeV ion beams to probe the composition and obtain...

An 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...

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...

A crankshaft is a mechanical component used in a piston engine to convert the reciprocating motion into rotational motion. The crankshaft is a rotating...

Fairbottom Bobs is a Newcomen-type beam engine that was used in the 18th century as a pumping engine to drain a colliery near Ashton-under-Lyne. It is...

a higher speed, but were 4,000 tons larger. Resolution was 410 feet (120 m) long overall and had a beam of 75 ft and a draft of 27 ft 6in. She displaced...

in a trunk engine. Therefore, the longitudinal dimension of the crosshead must be matched to the stroke of the engine. On smaller engines, the connecting...

of gilded bronze). In 1782, it became the first site with a Watt steam engine with the sun and planet gear. It was also home to the first steam-powered...

entering the device. In the case of a reciprocating internal combustion engine, a piston cannot complete its travel and mechanical failure may occur if...