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The Eclipse Corliss Engine The Eclipse Corliss Engine Group Classic Engineering Above - The Eclipse Cross Compound Corliss Engine. The Frick Company produced Corliss engines in the following styles :- Horizontal or Vertical form, Condensing or Non-Condensing, single or in pairs. " Compound " Engines, Tandem, Cross, Triple, or Quadruple. The Eclipse Corliss Engine The Eclipse Corliss Engine Group Classic Engineering Above - The Eclipse Cross Compound Corliss Engine. The Frick Company produced Corliss engines in the following styles :- Horizontal or Vertical form, Condensing or Non-Condensing, single or in pairs. " Compound " Engines, Tandem, Cross, Triple, or Quadruple. The valve gear is of the most approved pattern; an independent and separate valve controls each port, and is so placed that a short passage leads with the least amount of waste room to the piston; the exhaust valves, from their position, drain the water from the cylinder. The steam valves are so constructed that they act as relief valves in certain cases, and the valves themselves are solid castings from end to end, and separate from the driving stem The valve stems are made of Deoxidized Phosphor Bronze, as are also the trunnions, glands, shoes and springs, and the stems are made interchangeable. The wrist plate motion opens the steam valves quickly, giving boiler pressure at closest cut-off, and kept in motion up to the point of extreme travel, permitting the point of cut-off to be exactly determined and disengagements effected positively. Both the steam and exhaust valves are given a peculiar dwell movement where it is most needed. The reversal of the valves is bought about without shock, the movement being so easy from a state of rest to a rapid motion, and that without straining the connections, the wear and tear of moving parts - as light as they sometimes are made - is scarcely perceptible. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Th

Corliss dampmaskinen kjelerommet gruppe av George h. Corliss Er du en ingeniør oppfinner som kan selge dine egne ideer? George Henry Corliss ble. Under den industrielle age, Corliss (1817-1888) gikk ut av skolen som en 14-åring og tilbrakte sine første år i New York som en kontorist i en fabrikk-butikk. Han deltok et akademi i Vermont, men har valgt å gå tilbake til det eneste selskapet han hadde kjent tidligere og åpnet sin egen butikk, fungerer som en matbutikk. Lei av rutineoppgaver, ca 23 år gammel, han begynte å bruke hans mekaniske talenter til å finne opp og perfeksjonere maskiner, og etter noen år fikk sin første patent på en støvel-stikkende maskin. Corliss flyttet fra New York til Providence, RI, å søke støtte for markedet og produsere symaskin men planene endres når han ble interessert i dampmaskiner. Resultatet tok han en jobb i Fairbanks, Bancroft og selskapet som talsmann for dampmaskiner og kjele Fremstilling bedrift. Han steg i ansiennitet, kunne arbeide med egne prosjekter hos firmaet, og etter et par år tilbake for å forfølge sine egne ideer som en senior partner i Corliss, Nightingale og co, hans nye ideer forbedret dampmaskinen design, som nytte over hele verden. Corliss oppfunnet en ventil som tillatt steam raskt trykke et stempel, flytte frem og tilbake før steam å kondensere. Han laget også guvernører som ønsker å kontrollere damp og eksos. Disse fremskrittene redusert spillvarme og tillatt motoren til å operere med mer ensartet bevegelse og redusert drivstoff kostnader. Han designet, utviklet og patentert Corliss motor basert på disse forbedringene. Oppfinnere Hall of Fame bemerker at effektiv vekslende ventilen i Corliss motorer "banet vei for den utstrakte bruken av dampkraft i nittende århundre USA." I 1856 åpnet Corliss Corliss dampmaskinen selskap i Providence, RI. Dampmaskiner han ble brukt i mange industrielle applikasjoner, og snart ble eksportert til Skottland for bruk i bomull møller. Han åpnet en an

Corliss Boiler Room Steam Engine Group by George H. Corliss Are you an engineer inventor who can sell your own ideas? George Henry Corliss was. During the industrial age, Corliss (1817 - 1888) left school at age 14 and spent his early years working in New York as a clerk in a factory store. He attended an academy in Vermont, but opted to return to the only business he had known previously and opened his own store, working as a merchant. Bored with routine tasks, around age 23, he began to use his mechanical talents to invent and perfect machinery, and after a few years was awarded his first patent for a boot-stitching machine. Corliss moved from New York to Providence, RI, to seek funding to market and produce the stitching machine but his plans changed when he became interested in steam engines. As a result, he took a job at Fairbanks, Bancroft, and Company as a draftsman for their steam engine and boiler manufacturing firm. He rose in seniority, was able to work on his own projects at the company, and after a few years, left to pursue his own ideas as senior partner in Corliss, Nightingale, and Co. His new ideas improved steam engine design which benefited the entire world. Corliss invented a valve that allowed steam to quickly pressurize a piston, moving it back and forth before the steam could condense. He also created governors that would control the steam and exhaust. These advances reduced waste heat and allowed the engine to operate with more uniform motion and lowered fuel costs. He designed, developed, and patented the Corliss Engine based on these improvements. The Inventors Hall of Fame notes that the efficient shuttle valve in the Corliss Engines "paved the way for the widespread use of steam power in nineteenth-century America." In 1856, Corliss opened the Corliss Steam Engine Company in Providence, RI. The steam engines he produced were used in many industrial applications, and were soon exported to Scotland for use in cotton mills. He opened a second

Corliss Steam Engine Boiler Group Gear Rooms History of the steam engine The history of the steam engine stretches back as far as the 1st century AD; the first recorded rudimentary steam engine being the aeolipile... Corliss Steam Engine Boiler Group Gear Rooms History of the steam engine Source The history of the steam engine stretches back as far as the 1st century AD; the first recorded rudimentary steam engine being the aeolipile described by Hero of Alexandria. Over a millennium after Hero's (or "Heron's") experiments, a number of steam-powered devices were experimented with or proposed, but it was not until 1712 that a commercially successful steam engine was finally developed, Thomas Newcomen's atmospheric engine. During the industrial revolution, steam engines became the dominant source of power and remained so into the early decades of the 20th century, when advances in the design of the electric motor and the internal combustion engine resulted in the rapid replacement of the steam engine by these technologies. However, the steam turbine, an alternative form of steam engine, has become the most common method by which electrical power generators are driven. Investigations are being made into the practicalities of reviving the reciprocating steam engine as the basis for a new wave of 'advanced steam technology' . Contents 1 Precursors 1.1 Early uses of steam power 1.2 Cylinders 1.3 Savery steam pump 2 Atmospheric condensing engines 2.1 Newcomen "atmospheric" engine 2.2 Watt's separate condenser 2.3 Watt double-acting and rotative engines 3 High-pressure engines 3.1 Cornish engine and compounding 4 Corliss engine 5 Porter-Allen high speed engine 5.1 Uniflow (or unaflow) engine 6 References 7 Bibliography 8 Further reading Corliss Steam Engine Boiler Group Gear Rooms History of the steam engine Related Articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_steam_engine http://www.newsm.org/steam-engines/steam.html http://www.albert

Corliss Dampfmaschine Heizungsraum Gruppe von George h. Corliss Bist du ein Ingenieur-Erfinder, Ihre eigenen Ideen verkaufen kann? George Henry Corliss war. Während des Industriezeitalters Corliss (1817 - 1888) ging aus der Schule als 14-Year-Old und verbrachte seine ersten Jahre in New York als Angestellter in einem Fabrik-Speicher. Er besuchte eine Schule in Vermont, jedoch hat sich entschieden, gehen Sie zurück an das einzige Unternehmen hatte er zuvor bekannt und eröffnete sein eigenes Geschäft als ein Lebensmittelgeschäft. Müde von Routineaufgaben, etwa 23 Jahre alt, begann er, seine mechanische Talente zu erfinden und Vervollkommnung der Maschinen zu verwenden, und wenige Jahre später erhielt sein erste Patent auf ein Boot-stitching-Maschine. Corliss zog von New York, Providence, RI, suchen Unterstützung für den Markt und die Produkte, die die Nähmaschine aber Pläne zu ändern, wenn er Dampfmaschinen zu interessieren begann. Infolgedessen nahm er einen Job in Fairbanks, Bancroft und Unternehmen als Sprecher für die Dampfmaschine und Kessel Herstellung Geschäft. Er stieg im Dienstalter, eigene Projekte in der Firma arbeiten, und nach ein paar Jahren wieder um verfolgen ihre eigenen Ideen als Seniorpartner von Corliss, Nachtigall und co., seine neuen Ideen verbesserte die Dampfmaschine entwerfen, welche Vorteile auf der ganzen Welt. Corliss erfand ein Ventil, das Dampf schnell Drücken einer Briefmarke, erlaubt, hin-und herbewegen vor der Dampf zu kondensieren. Er schuf auch die Gouverneure den Dampf kontrollieren und ausschöpfen wollen. Diese Fortschritte reduziert Abwärme und erlaubt den Motor für den Betrieb mit mehr Bewegung und reduzierte Kraftstoffkosten. Er konstruiert, entwickelt und patentiert die Corliss-Engine auf Basis von diesen Verbesserungen. Inventors Hall of Fame Hinweise, dass die effektive abwechselnd in Corliss Motoren Ventil "den Weg für den weit verbreiteten Einsatz von Dampfkraft in den neunzehnten Jahrhundert Vereinigte