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steam to flow into it and be
condensed,
which drew the
steam from the main
cylinder causing the
power stroke. The
condensing cylinder was
water cooled to...
-
widespread commercial use of
stationary steam engines.
Humphrey Gainsborough produced a
model condensing steam engine in the 1760s,
which he
showed to Richard...
- to
which it is ****ed. It
differs from the
usual closed cycle condensing steam engine, in that the
function of the
condenser is
primarily either to recover...
-
states that Watt's
condensing engines were known, at the time, as low
pressure compared to high pressure, non-
condensing engines of the same period....
- means. The mine
Wheal Vor had one of the
earliest Newcomen engines (in-cylinder
condensing engines,
utilising sub-atmospheric pressure)
before 1714, but Cornwall...
- fire
engine (see below) or
simply as a
Newcomen engine. The
engine was
operated by
condensing steam drawn into the cylinder,
thereby creating a partial...
-
could move a
piston in a
steam engine on its own account,
instead of
using pressure near to atmospheric, in a
condensing engine. He was not the
first to think...
- the
engines.
Number 1
engine,
built by
Boulton and Watt in 1812 and
rebuilt as a
Cornish engine in the 1840s, is a single-acting,
condensing engine with...
-
Compound engines which use the
exhaust from high-pressure
cylinders to
power low-pressure cylinders. An
engine could be run in
simple or
condensing mode:...
-
result of
using the
exhaust of a high-pressure
engine to
power a
condensing engine. The
Cornish engine was
notable for its
relatively high efficiency...
