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  1. Internal Combustion Engine — 2023-10-09 23:51:33
    …royd-Engine.jpg" class="left" title="Hornsby-Akroyd Engine" width="400" }} == Into mass Production == Akroyd-Stuart's engines were built from **26 June 1891** by Richard Hornsby and Sons, a large manufacturer of steam engines and agricultural eq…
    …ed fuel injection system. The engine was hugely successful. During the period from 1891 through 1905, a total of 32,417 engines were produced. {{Image url="Herbert_akroyd_stuart_plaque.jpg" class="right" title="Herbert Akroyd plaque" width="200" }…
  2. Steam Engine — 2023-10-08 00:19:36
    …od are transferred to a pump piston that moves the water, through check valves, to the top of the shaft. Early Newcomen engines operated so slowly that the valves were manually opened and closed by an attendant. An improvement was the replacement …
    …d smoothly enough to be connected to a drive shaft—via sun and planet gears—to provide rotary power. In early steam engines the piston is usually connected to a balanced beam, rather than directly to a connecting rod, and these engines are the…
    …refore known as beam engines. Boulton soon realised the potential of Watts engine. With the piston movement converted to rotary movement, soon pape…
    …r, flour, cotton and iron mills are all powered by Watt’s engines, driving the **Industrial Revolution**. The term '**watt**' in electricity is named after James Watt to describe the p…
  3. Industrial Revolution — 2021-08-08 21:48:46
    …iron from pig iron and producing the iron to replace the more expensive brass cylinders used in Thomas Newcomen's steam engines. == Abraham Darby III (1750 – 1791) == {{Image url="Abraham_darby_IV.jpg" class="right" width="200" }} Abraham carr…
  4. Jet airliner — 2020-11-30 22:29:36
    …The plane was beautifully shaped with an aerodynamically clean design. Four de Havilland Ghost [[Jet_Engine| turbojet]] engines were sleekly contained in the wings. It had a pressurised fuselage, and large square windows.…
  5. Railway — 2020-11-30 12:55:52
    …ed at the mine and learned to read and write in his spare time. He gained a reputation for managing the primitive steam engines employed in mines, and worked in a number of different coalmines in the northeast of England and in Scotland. In 1814 …
    … for their railway. The winner also received the huge sum of £500. The contest was held at '''Rainhill''', and of ten engines entered, only 5 turned up and just 3 functioned well enough to take part in the Rainhill Trials. The winner was '''Rock…
    …ham & Derby, Normanton & York and Sheffied & Rotherham railways. He was constantly innovating, constantly improving his engines and the tracks. He was so successful that he was able to purchase Tapton House, near Chesterfield, in 1838. He investe…
  6. Jet Engine — 2020-08-15 08:35:25
    …the inventor of jet propulsion, patented in January 1930. {{toc}} By the end of the war, Whittle's efforts resulted in engines that would transform world transport shrinking the globe like never before. {{Image url="Motorized-jet-engine.jpg" cla…
    …ent to Power Jets, later a number of tenders to various companies were asked to set up production lines for up to 3,000 engines a month in 1942, all of a sudden the Government could find the money. Manufacturing of the engine was offered to BTH, V…
  7. Harrier Jump Jet — 2017-01-18 16:14:57
    …£180 million. More than 50 years later and the jumpjet has a contender in the Lockheed Martin F-35B aircraft whose VTO engines are supplied by Rolls Royce. {{image url="harrier-jump-jet-vertical-take-off.jpg" class="left" title="Harrier vertical…

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