While a handcrafted boiler or a desktop steam reciprocating engine might not be on the average Hackaday reader’s list of future projects, it’s still fascinating to see how they work.

While a handcrafted boiler or a desktop steam reciprocating engine might not be on the average Hackaday reader’s list of future projects, it’s still fascinating to see how they work.

I claim for my engine cheapness, compactness, and uniformity of action, and economy in the use of steam, equal to the reciprocating engine.

The USS Monitor, launched in 1862, was powered by a high-pressure steam engine. And, like all of the engines just discussed, it was a reciprocating engine—that is, an engine that relies on pistons.

THE purpose of the authors in producing this book has been to provide an elementary treatise on the kinematics of reciprocating steam engines and steam turbines, and to make clear to the beginner ...

The reciprocating engine, whose size is limited to that required to pass the steam for the designed cruising speed, exhausts through the turbines. At higher speeds the reciprocating engine is ...

Object Details inventor Higginson, Andrew Description This model was filed with the application to the U.S. Patent Office for Patent Number 196,451 issued to Andrew Higginson of Liverpool, England on ...

Miscellany Published: 30 November 1929 Steam and other Engines Nature 124, 834–835 (1929) Cite this article ...

TerraJoule, in Redwood City, Calif., is developing 100-kW-scale electrical power-generation systems that use the sun to superheat water into steam, which then runs reciprocating steam engines in ...