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| icarus |
 Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 11:22 am Post subject: Brunel's "Gaz Engine" |
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| Can anyone tell me more about this? Brunel wasted a lot of time and effort on this machine that came to nothing. What was it and on which principles was it based? |
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| spirytus |
| Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:42 pm Post subject: |
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I got curious my self so I googled it. 15 minutes netted me very little information;
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| in 1833, he finally abandoned a decade-long private project to develop an engine — he called it a "gaz" engine — powered by gas pressure as an alternative to steam. |
Source: http://www.engineering-timelines.com/who/Brunel_IK/brunelIK4.asp
Pneumatic engine?? meh...
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| icarus |
| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:15 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks spirytus. Bit of a weird one this. The man spent a decade researching this and yet I can't find a thing about it. Brunel was no dummy. He must have been on to something. He must have been sponsered/funded. No drawings, no prototypes, no anecdotal evidence?
All the engineers I've ever met fall over themselves at the opportunity to explain how a machine works to an enthusiastic layman.
Would anyone even care to have a guess at what IKB was working towards? |
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| Three Of Five |
| Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:11 am Post subject: Air compressed engine |
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| There were several designs involving compressed air engines and they seem to be feasible, the problem is that you need energy to compress air, and the total efficiency must be considered in the whole process. |
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