Literature & History
Bing’s twin-cylinder engine worked with hot air
About this itemBing tinplate hot air engine with two cylinders #135/22Bing’s no. 135/22 puts two horizontal cylinders beside a tall firebox and chimney. A red flywheel and the exposed connecting rods make the mechanism easy to follow in the museum photographs. The working medium in a hot-air engine is air, heated and cooled to produce changes in pressure. Those changes move a piston, while the flywheel carries the mechanism through the rest of its cycle. Heat is supplied from outside…
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