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121Hit and miss engine — A hit and miss engine is a type of four stroke internal combustion engine that was conceived in the late 1800s and was produced by various companies from the 1890s through approximately the 1930s. The name comes from the method of speed control… …
122Compound engine — For compound steam locomotives, see Compound locomotive. Cutaway of triple expansion compound steam engine, 1888 …
123Rider-Ericsson Engine Company — Origin= The Rider Ericsson Engine Company was the successor of the DeLameter Iron Works and the Rider Engine Company, having bought from both companies their extensive plants and entire stocks of engines and patterns, covering all styles of Rider …
124RKM engine — The Rotary Piston Machine, or in its German originalRotationskolbenmaschine (R.K.M.) is a new (still in development) formof machine. It can be used either to transform pressure intorotational motion (an engine), or the converse rotationalmotion… …
125Radiator (engine cooling) — For other uses, see Radiator (disambiguation). A typical engine coolant radiator used in an automobile Radiators are used for cooling internal combustion engines, mainly in automobiles but also in piston engined aircraft, railway locomotives,… …
126Beam engine — A beam engine is a design of engine based on the principles of a first class lever. A force is applied to one end of a beam, which is pivoted in the middle, and the lever action transfers the force to create work at the other end of the beam.The… …
127GM LS engine — Infobox Automobile engine name=GM LS engine aka=GM Vortec engine manufacturer=General Motors production=1997–present class=OHV V8 predecessor=GM LT engine, Chevrolet Small Block engine, Chevrolet Big Block engine successor= similar=Ford Modular… …
128steam engine — steam engine, adj. an engine worked by steam, typically one in which a sliding piston in a cylinder is moved by the expansive action of the steam generated in a boiler. [1745 55] * * * Machine that uses steam power to perform mechanical work… …
