COMBUSTION ENGINES
|
|
COMBUSTION ENGINES
The majority of machines which we use in our everyday life work because they have engines which, in turn, need different sources of energy: Heat, fuels, electricity and nuclear energy. Electricity: thermal power-stations. External combustion engines. Thomas Newcomen. Steam engines. Internal combustion engines: cars, for example. Nicholas Otto, inventor of the first, 4-stroke piston engine. Rudolph Diesel: inventor of a very important variation of an internal combustion engine. Summary.
|
INTRODUCTION
- The machines and vehicles used in our industrialised world function because they have engines.
- What is an engine?
- Combustion engines.
- Mechanical labour converted into movement.
- The electricity.
- Internal and external combustion engines.
EXTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
- How do combustion engines function?
- Thomas Newcomen. The steam-engine.
- James Watt improved the efficiency of the steam-engine.
- George Stevenson. The first really-efficient steam train.
- Railways.
- Fitch and Fulton. Boats with steam-engines
- Power-stations and electrical energy.
INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
- The majority of land vehicles use internal combustion engines.
- Nikolaus Otto designed the first 4-stroke engine.
Structure of the Otto engine.
- The 2-stroke engine. Motorbikes.
- Rudolf Diesel invented an important kind of internal combustion engine which was very important.
SUMMARY |
|
|
|
|
