. The Encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information. Fig. I.—Stirlings Air-Engine. AIREY—AIRY 445. Fig. -Robinsons form,Engine. (D) with the working cylinder (B). The displacer (E),which takesits motion through a rod (I) from a rocking lever (F) connected bya short link to the crank-pin, is itself the regenerator, its con-struction being such that the air passes up and down throughit as in one of the original Stirling forms. The cooler is a watervessel (G) through which water circulates from a tank (H).Messrs. Hayward and Tylers Rider engine ma
. The Encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information. Fig. I.—Stirlings Air-Engine. AIREY—AIRY 445. Fig. -Robinsons form,Engine. (D) with the working cylinder (B). The displacer (E),which takesits motion through a rod (I) from a rocking lever (F) connected bya short link to the crank-pin, is itself the regenerator, its con-struction being such that the air passes up and down throughit as in one of the original Stirling forms. The cooler is a watervessel (G) through which water circulates from a tank (H).Messrs. Hayward and Tylers Rider engine may be mentionedas another small hot-air motor which follows nearly the Stirlingcycle of operations. An attempt to develop a powerful air-engine was made in.\merica about 1833 by John Ericsson, who applied it to marinepropulsion in the ship Caloric, but without permanentsuccess. Like Stirling, Ericsson used a regenerator, but withthis difference that the pressure instead of the volume of the air remained constant whileit passed in each directionthrough the air was compressed bya pump into a receiver,where it was kept cooldu
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