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Definition of Caloric engine

Caloric engine
Caloric Ca*lor"ic, a. Of or pertaining to caloric. Caloric engine, a kind of engine operated by heated air.

Meaning of Caloric engine from wikipedia

- A hot air engine (historically called an air engine or caloric engine) is any heat engine that uses the expansion and contraction of air under the influence...
- "Ericsson's open-cycle engine of 1852". hotairengines.org. "Ericsson's closed-cycle engine of 1833". hotairengines.org. "Ericsson's Caloric Ship". hotairengines...
- cycles and engines the working fluid is always a gas (i.e., there is no phase change): Carnot cycle (Carnot heat engine) Ericsson cycle (Caloric Ship John...
- The caloric theory is an obsolete scientific theory that heat consists of a self-repellent fluid called caloric that flows from hotter bodies to colder...
- hotairengines.org. "Arnott's air engine". hotairengines.org. "The Ericsson Caloric Engines". hotairengines.org. "The Dundee Stirling Engine". hotairengines.org. "The...
- In 1833 Ericsson built his third engine, a hot air engine (or caloric engine) that is exhibited in London: "the engine will prove the most important mechanical...
- A Carnot heat engine is a theoretical heat engine that operates on the Carnot cycle. The basic model for this engine was developed by Nicolas Léonard Sadi...
- Boulton, Matthew Piers Watt. and Edward Perrett. Patent number: 311102: Caloric Engine, U.S. Patent Office, 1885. Boulton, Matthew Piers Watt. Patent number:...
- University Press. "Amontons' engine". hotairengines.org. "The Stirling Engine". hotairengines.org. "Ericsson's Caloric Engine". hotairengines.org. Amontons...
- that no caloric is lost during the operation of his idealized engine. The process being completely reversible executed by this kind of heat engine is the...