GB Patent: GB-181,604,081
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| Improvements for diminishing the consumption of fuel, and in particular an engine capable of being applied to the moving machinery on a principle entirely new
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Patentee:
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| Robert Stirling (exact or similar names) - Edinburgh, Scotland |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Nov. 16, 1816 |
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Animated description of this patent engine
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Description: |
| There are two distinct and important invention here. First is the heat exchanger, or regenerator (Stirling called it the Heat Economiser). Second is the engine, which we now know as the Stirling cycle engine, which creates motion by moving energy between hot and cold ends of a cylinder. |
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