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    A blowing engine is a large stationary steam engine or internal combustion engine directly coupled to air pumping cylinders. They deliver a very large...
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    cylinders used in the steam engines of James Watt. His boring machine has been called the first machine tool. He also developed a blowing device for blast furnaces...
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    allowing the blowing of air into a furnace or hearth. Air or oxygen is injected into a hearth under pressure from bellows or a blowing engine or other devices...
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    A blowing house or blowing mill was a building used for smelting tin in Cornwall and on Dartmoor in Devon, in South West England. Blowing houses contained...
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    Sydney, Australia. A Boulton-Watt engine of 1788 may be found in the Science Museum, London, while an 1817 blowing engine, formerly used at the Netherton...
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    A four-stroke (also four-cycle) engine is an internal combustion (IC) engine in which the piston completes four separate strokes while turning the crankshaft...
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    currently in beta release. Blow's games are known for being artistic and challenging. They are made with custom game engines, and have larger budgets and...
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    JZ engine family is a series of inline-6 automobile engines produced by Toyota. As a replacement for the M-series inline-6 engines, the JZ engines were...
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    Blists Hill Victorian Town (category Preserved beam engines)
    and a blowing engine from the Lilleshall Company's Priorslee Ironworks installed in one of the houses. Nearby are displayed a pair of beam engines from...
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    engine, not as an output shaft. These engines were some of the last new return connecting rod designs to be built. The large vertical blowing engine illustrated...
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  • own subcontracted casting business. Another patent in 1757 was for a blowing-engine for blast furnaces, using columns of water similar to the trempe system...
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  • was the water wheel, not the steam engine. The origins of the water-returning engine begin with blowing engines used to provide the draught for blast...
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    exceptions being the single cam RB20ET & RB30ET engines), and most have a recirculating factory blow off valve (the exceptions being when fitted to Laurels...
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    Boulton and Watt (category Steam engine manufacturers)
    firm in the business of designing and making marine and stationary steam engines. Founded in the English West Midlands around Birmingham in 1775 as a partnership...
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    directly in the line of ancestry of the steam-engine and the locomotive" along with Wang Zhen's blowing engine a century later. Al-Jazari described single-bucket...
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    furnace stack, a Peter L. Weimer blowing engine (1879), boilers for the steam engine, and the charging ramp, engine house, and cast house foundations...
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    compression; thus, the diesel engine is called a compression-ignition engine (CI engine). This contrasts with engines using spark plug-ignition of the...
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    An internal combustion engine (ICE or IC engine) is a heat engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion...
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    casting houses, ruined kilns, the base of the massive chimney of the blowing engine, the cast-iron structure that carried the blast pipes to the furnaces...
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  • Thomas the Tank Engine is a fictional, anthropomorphised tank locomotive who originated from the British children's books The Railway Series, created and...
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    or more broadly to systems like upper surface blowing or nozzle systems on conventional underwing engine that direct air through the flaps. Blown flaps...
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    Smethwick Engine, now at Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum, is the oldest working steam engine, made in 1779, and is the oldest working engine in the...
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    combustion engine. The system usually consists of a tube, a one-way valve and a vacuum source (such as the inlet manifold). The unwanted gases, called "blow-by"...
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    ironworks ceased production, following the blowing in of two of the furnaces. The furnace settings and blowing houses are now preserved, but unrestored...
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    An early internal combustion blowing engine of around 1900, powered by furnace gas...
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    Clairton Works, Blast Furnace Blowing Engine Building" HAER No. PA-49-B, "U.S. Steel Corporation, Clairton Works, 14-Inch Mill Engines No. 1 & No. 2" HAER No...
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    over the upper and lower surfaces of the flap, and upper surface blowing which blows engine exhaust over the top of the wing and flap. While testing was done...
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    The Wankel engine (/ˈvaŋkəl̩/, VUN-kell) is a type of internal combustion engine using an eccentric rotary design to convert pressure into rotating motion...
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    Marker. Thompson blowing engine: An air blowing engine which produced 1,300 cubic metres (45,000 cu ft) of air per minute at 25psi. The engine weighed 400...
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    The blowing engine building is in use for various events whereas the steam production building was torn down in spring 2010. Former blowing engine building...
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