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GB Patent: GB-183,306,525
Producing Power
Patentee:
Lemuel Willman Wright (exact or similar names) - Southwark, Surrey County, England

USPTO Classifications:

Tool Categories:
propulsion and energy : internal combustion engines

Assignees:
None

Manufacturer:
Not known to have been produced

Witnesses:
Unknown

Patent Dates:
Granted: Dec. 06, 1833

Patent Pictures: [ 1 | 2 ]
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Description:
This was one of the first internal combustion engine patents.

Abstract:

A certain improvement or certain improvements in the combination and arrangement of machinery or apparatus, whereby certain well-known agents may be employed in producing power, and in the mode of effecting the same, applicable to various useful purposes.

"Lemuel Willman Wright (No. 6,525), in 1833, took out a patent in which inflammable gases and air are made to explode, in a close globular vessel, and work the piston of an engine like a steam-engine, the piston being lubricated, by water escaping round its periphery, and the cylinder being furnished with a water-jacket."

Examples of Steam, Air, & Gas Engines of the Most Recent Approved Types,1878, pg. 175

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