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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
idea is much older, as it is found in the English patent of Glazebrook, 1797. Stirling's regenerator is described as consisting of a chamber or chambers filled with ctual efficiency of 0.15, or one third of the maximum theoretical efficiency. Stirling's air-engine was therefore more economical than any existing doubleaction steain air-engines. The forms of the regenerators, however, differ considerably. Stirling's is described in this article, and Glazebrook's appears to have been like a miprocate the piston. This was the form of Brunel's engine, British, 1804; and Stirling's, British, 1827; and Peters's, 1862. 4th. Those engines in which water orher formula)4.5128.67.2.5 Parke's English Patent (another formula)3.48.50.1. Stirling's Gun-Metal, English Patent, 184650.25.1--8Mang. Stirling's Patent British goStirling's Patent British gold, English Patent, 1846400.93.7.6. Bell-Metal (Overman）71.26.2.1. Aich's Metal, English Patent, Feb. 3, 186060.38.1251.5 Rosthorn's Gun-Metal, Austria, 186155.040
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
ellet in the base of the bullet. By position it may be rear-fire, front-fire, side-fire, center-fire. See. cartridge; fire-arm. Gun-look Ham′mer. The cock or striker of a fire-arm lock. See gun-lock. Gun-met′al. A bronze from which cannon may be cast. Ordinarily 9 parts copper and 1 tin. Other metals have been sometimes added or substituted for the tin, copper still remaining the basis of the alloy. A few examples are given. Copper.Tin.Zinc.Iron. Common formula91 Stirling's (English）50251 – 8 Rosthorn's (Austrian）55.040.8342.361.77 Rosthorn's (Austrian）57.630.1540.221.86 Navy (Austrian）6038.121.8 Birkholtz (U. States)60382.0 Copper.Aluminum.Zinc.Iron. Keirs (English, 1799）1007510 Lancaster's (English）9010 See alloy. The Rosthorn (Austrian) alloys are known as sterro-metal. One variety is soft, ductile, and capable of being worked into sheets or wire. The other is hard, and is represented as suitable for ordnance. From experim
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
are thus alternately heated by each set, and cooled by the other, to which they impart their heat, so that when discharged into the chimney they are at a comparatively low temperature. Re-gen′er-a-tor. A device to abstract the head from an escaping volume of air or gas, in order that it may be imparted to a body of incoming air. The object is economy of fuel by conservation of heat. An illustration of this may be found in the airengine of Glazebrook, English patent, 1797, and in Stirling's English patent, 1816. The latter had the metallic sieves of wire gauze afterward adopted by Ericsson. Their use in this connection is a fallacy. See air-engine. See also Regenerating-furnace. Reg′is-ter. 1. A device for automatically indicating the number of revolutions made or amount of work done by machinery, or recording steam, air, or water pressure, or other data, by means of apparatus deriving motion from the object or objects whose force, distance, velocity, direction, el
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
e service of the Prussian minister, Count de Podervils. We are not informed as to its construction; it seems to have given satisfaction. He also invented a straw-chopper and many other machines. Menzies made a machine in Scotland in 1732, and Stirling of Dumblane another in 1758, but they do not seem to have been successes. Meikle, of Tyningham, East Lothian, Scotland, invented a machine in 1786, which is the type of modern thrashers. Menzies's had a series of revolving flails, and Stirling's had a cylinder with arms upon a vertical shaft running at high velocity. Meikle invented the drum with beaters acting upon the grain in the sheaf, which was fed between rollers. The English improvement was to make the beating drum work in a concave known as the breasting, the grain and straw being scutched and rubbed between the two and carried to the shaker, which removed the straw from the grain and chaff, a large amount of grain also falling through the bars of the concave. Meikle