GB Patent: GB-183,306,525
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Producing Power
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Patentee:
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Lemuel Willman Wright (exact or similar names) - Southwark, Surrey County, England |
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Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Dec. 06, 1833 |
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Joel Havens
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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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