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65 relations: Aircraft engine, Alexander Carnegie Kirk, Alfred de Glehn, Anatole Mallet, André Chapelon, Arthur Woolf, Bavarian S 3/6, Compound locomotive, Compound steam engine, Compound turbine, Compounding of steam turbines, Condenser (heat transfer), Condensing steam locomotive, Detroit Diesel, Dobrynin VD-4K, Engine, Exhaust gas, Far East, Free-piston engine, Gas turbine, Gaston du Bousquet, German language, Greater Glasgow, Internal combustion engine, Iveco, Joseph Anton von Maffei, LMS 6399 Fury, LMS Compound 4-4-0, Lockheed Constellation, Mallet locomotive, Marine steam engine, Metropolitan Railway A Class, Napier Nomad, New Holland Agriculture, Newcomen atmospheric engine, Nilgiri Mountain Railway X class, NZR A class (1906), NZR X class, Olympic-class ocean liner, Pressure compounding in turbines, Reed water tube boiler, RMS Titanic, Royal Navy, Scotland, Single- and double-acting cylinders, Spanish warship Destructor, SS Aberdeen (1881), SS Laurentic (1908), Stationary steam engine, Steam engine, ..., Steam locomotive, Steam turbine, Steamship, Supercharger, Traction engine, Turbo-compound engine, Turbocharger, Uniflow steam engine, Wankel engine, Warship, Watt steam engine, Württemberg Tssd, Working fluid, World War II, Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone. Expand index (15 more) »
Aircraft engine
An aircraft engine is the component of the propulsion system for an aircraft that generates mechanical power.
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Alexander Carnegie Kirk
Alexander Carnegie Kirk (16 July 1830 – 5 October 1892) was a Scottish engineer responsible for several major innovations in the shipbuilding, refrigeration, and oil shale industries of the 19th century.
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Alfred de Glehn
Alfred George de Glehn (15 September 1848 – 8 June 1936) was a notable English-born French designer of steam locomotives and an engineer with the Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques (SACM).
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Anatole Mallet
Jules T. Anatole Mallet (23 May 1837 – 10 October 1919) was a Swiss mechanical engineer, who was the inventor of the first successful compound system for a railway steam locomotive, patented in 1874.
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André Chapelon
André Chapelon (26 October 1892 – 22 July 1978) was a noted French mechanical engineer and designer of advanced steam locomotives.
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Arthur Woolf
Arthur Woolf (1766, Camborne, Cornwall – 16 October 1837, Guernsey) was a Cornish engineer, most famous for inventing a high-pressure compound steam engine.
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Bavarian S 3/6
The Class S 3/6 steam locomotives of the Royal Bavarian State Railways (later Class 18.4-5 of the Deutsche Reichsbahn) were express train locomotives with a 4-6-2 Pacific (Whyte notation) or 2'C1' (UIC classification) wheel arrangement.
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Compound locomotive
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.
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Compound steam engine
A compound steam engine unit is a type of steam engine where steam is expanded in two or more stages.
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Compound turbine
A compound turbine is a steam turbine in which there are two casings, a high-pressure casing and a low-pressure casing, operating in concert to extract work from a single source of steam.
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Compounding of steam turbines
Compounding of steam turbines is the method in which energy from the steam is extracted in a number of stages rather than a single stage in a turbine.
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Condenser (heat transfer)
In systems involving heat transfer, a condenser is a device or unit used to condense a substance from its gaseous to its liquid state, by cooling it.
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Condensing steam locomotive
A condensing steam locomotive is a type of locomotive designed to recover exhaust steam, either in order to improve range between taking on boiler water, or to reduce emission of steam inside enclosed spaces.
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Detroit Diesel
Detroit Diesel Corporation (DDC) is an American diesel engine manufacturer headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, United States and a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of the German Daimler AG.
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Dobrynin VD-4K
The Dobrynin VD-4K was a Soviet six-bank, 24-cylinder, turbo-compound, inline engine developed after the end of World War II.
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Engine
An engine or motor is a machine designed to convert one form of energy into mechanical energy.
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Exhaust gas
Exhaust gas or flue gas is emitted as a result of the combustion of fuels such as natural gas, gasoline, petrol, biodiesel blends, diesel fuel, fuel oil, or coal.
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Far East
The Far East is a geographical term in English that usually refers to East Asia (including Northeast Asia), the Russian Far East (part of North Asia), and Southeast Asia.
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Free-piston engine
A free-piston engine is a linear, 'crankless' internal combustion engine, in which the piston motion is not controlled by a crankshaft but determined by the interaction of forces from the combustion chamber gases, a rebound device (e.g., a piston in a closed cylinder) and a load device (e.g. a gas compressor or a linear alternator).
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Gas turbine
A gas turbine, also called a combustion turbine, is a type of continuous combustion, internal combustion engine.
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Gaston du Bousquet
Gaston du Bousquet (1839–1910) was a French engineer who was Chief of Motive Power (ingénieur en chef traction) of the Chemin de Fer du Nord, designer of locomotives and professor at École centrale de Lille.
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German language
German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.
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Greater Glasgow
Greater Glasgow is an urban settlement in Scotland consisting of all localities which are physically attached to the city of Glasgow, forming with it a single contiguous urban area (or conurbation).
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Internal combustion engine
An internal combustion engine (ICE) is a heat engine where the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion chamber that is an integral part of the working fluid flow circuit.
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Iveco
Iveco, an acronym for Industrial Vehicles Corporation, is an Italian industrial vehicle manufacturing company based in Turin, Italy, and entirely controlled by CNH Industrial Group.
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Joseph Anton von Maffei
Joseph Anton von Maffei (4 September 1790 – 1 September 1870) was a German industrialist.
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LMS 6399 Fury
The London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) No.
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LMS Compound 4-4-0
The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Compound 4-4-0 was a class of steam locomotive designed for passenger work.
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Lockheed Constellation
The Lockheed Constellation ("Connie") is a propeller-driven, four-engined airliner built by Lockheed Corporation between 1943 and 1958 at Burbank, California.
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Mallet locomotive
The Mallet locomotive is a type of articulated steam railway locomotive, invented by the Swiss engineer Anatole Mallet (1837–1919).
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Marine steam engine
A marine steam engine is a steam engine that is used to power a ship or boat.
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Metropolitan Railway A Class
The Metropolitan Railway A Class and B Class were 4-4-0T condensing steam locomotives built for the Metropolitan Railway by Beyer Peacock, first used in 1864.
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Napier Nomad
The Napier Nomad was a British diesel aircraft engine designed and built by Napier & Son in 1949.
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New Holland Agriculture
New Holland is a global brand of agricultural machinery produced by CNH Industrial.
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Newcomen atmospheric engine
The atmospheric engine was invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712, and is often referred to simply as a Newcomen engine.
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Nilgiri Mountain Railway X class
The X class locomotives are a class of metre gauge 0-8-2T rack and pinion compound locomotives working on the Nilgiri Mountain Railway in the Nilgiri Hills of southern India.
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NZR A class (1906)
The A class were steam locomotives built in 1906 with a 4-6-2 wheel arrangement for New Zealand's national railway network, and described by some as the most handsome engines to run on New Zealand rails.
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NZR X class
The NZR X class was a pioneering class of eighteen 4-8-2 steam locomotives designed by A. L. Beattie that operated on the national rail network of New Zealand.
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Olympic-class ocean liner
The Olympic-class ocean liners were a trio of British ocean liners built by the Harland & Wolff shipyard for the White Star Line during the early 20th century.
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Pressure compounding in turbines
Pressure compounding is the method in which pressure in a steam turbine is made to drop in a number of stages rather than in a single nozzle.
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Reed water tube boiler
The Reed water tube boiler was a type of water tube boiler developed by J. W.
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RMS Titanic
RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.
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Scotland
Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.
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Single- and double-acting cylinders
Reciprocating engine cylinders are often classified by whether they are single- or double-acting, depending on how the working fluid acts on the piston.
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Spanish warship Destructor
Destructor was a 19th-century Spanish warship.
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SS Aberdeen (1881)
SS Aberdeen was a British cargo liner; the first ship to be successfully powered by a triple expansion steam engine.
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SS Laurentic (1908)
SS Laurentic was a British ocean liner of the White Star Line.
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Stationary steam engine
Stationary steam engines are fixed steam engines used for pumping or driving mills and factories, and for power generation.
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Steam engine
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.
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Steam locomotive
A steam locomotive is a type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine.
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Steam turbine
A steam turbine is a device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam and uses it to do mechanical work on a rotating output shaft.
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Steamship
A steamship, often referred to as a steamer, is a type of steam powered vessel, typically ocean-faring and seaworthy, that is propelled by one or more steam engines that typically drive (turn) propellers or paddlewheels.
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Supercharger
A supercharger is an air compressor that increases the pressure or density of air supplied to an internal combustion engine.
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Traction engine
A traction engine is a self-propelled steam engine used to move heavy loads on roads, plough ground or to provide power at a chosen location.
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Turbo-compound engine
A turbo-compound engine is a reciprocating engine that employs a turbine to recover energy from the exhaust gases.
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Turbocharger
A turbocharger, or colloquially turbo, is a turbine-driven forced induction device that increases an internal combustion engine's efficiency and power output by forcing extra air into the combustion chamber.
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Uniflow steam engine
The uniflow type of steam engine uses steam that flows in one direction only in each half of the cylinder.
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Wankel engine
The Wankel engine is a type of internal combustion engine using an eccentric rotary design to convert pressure into rotating motion.
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Warship
A warship is a naval ship that is built and primarily intended for naval warfare.
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Watt steam engine
The Watt steam engine (alternatively known as the Boulton and Watt steam engine) was the first type of steam engine to make use of a separate condenser.
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Württemberg Tssd
The Württemberg Tssd was a class of German, narrow gauge, steam locomotive operated by the Royal Württemberg State Railways.
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Working fluid
A working fluid is a pressurized gas or liquid that actuates a machine.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone
The Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone was one of the most powerful radial aircraft engines produced in the United States.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_engine
