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Can a train run on steam?
Steam trains were once widespread, and changed the world. A steam engine is an external combustion engine, meaning that the fuel burns outside the engine. In modern internal combustion engines the petrol or diesel burns inside the engine, and the gases produced expand and push the cylinders, and this motion eventually turns the wheels. In the steam engine the fuel burns in an external fire box. The heat boils the water to make steam, which pushes the cylinders. So it depends exactly what you mean by 'run'. Certainly there were and are steam trains, but the steam doesn't provide the energy to make it go, the fuel does.
How do engins work?
Engine configurationEarlier automobile engine development produced a much larger range of engines than is in common use today. Engines have ranged from 1- to 16-cylinder designs with corresponding differences in overall size, weight, piston displacement, and cylinder bores. Four cylinders and power ratings from 19 to 120 hp (14 to 90 kW) were followed in a majority of the models. Several three-cylinder, two-stroke-cycle models were built while most engines had straight or in-line cylinders. There were several V-type models and horizontally opposed two- and four-cylinder makes too. Overhead camshafts were frequently employed. The smaller engines were commonly air-cooled and located at the rear of the vehicle; compression ratios were relatively low. The 1970s and 1980s saw an increased interest in improved fuel economy, which caused a return to smaller V-6 and four-cylinder layouts, with as many as five valves per cylinder to improve efficiency. The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 operates with a W16 engine, meaning that two V8 cylinder layouts are positioned next to each other to create the W shape sharing the same crankshaft.The largest internal combustion engine ever built is the Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C, a 14-cylinder, 2-stroke turbocharged diesel engine that was designed to power the Emma Mærsk, the largest container ship in the world. This engine weighs 2,300 tons, and when running at 102 RPM produces 109,000 bhp (80,080 kW) consuming some 13.7 tons of fuel each hour.
What would the world be like without the steam engine?
mother f***ers
How has the steam engine changed your world?
i believe the steam engine provide faster transportation of goods and people and people could coal mine easier.
Why have we developed gm crops?
To increase their resistance to disease and predation. To improve the yield. To allow crops to grow more quickly and in more adverse conditions. To reduce starvation in the world.
What is the world's largest internal combustion engine?
boiler
How did the internal combustion engine change the world?
It created new ways to travel the world
Why do you need the internal combustion engine?
We all need the Internal Combustion Engine because we wouldnt have lived without it. we need the engine for cars, buses, trains, trams etc. It is mostly the most help of transportation in the world! continuing, let say you had a job and you were late for a meeting, (this is when the combustion engine was not invented) you need to get there fast or else you will take the sack but you did not have a car and if you did you need an engine to power it.
What is the meaning of internal?
Internal is the opposite of external. It is an adjective referring to things or situations on the inside. For example, in an internal combustion engine, all of the combustion (explosions) happen inside the engine. The internal affairs of an organization are the affairs (issues) of the personnel within the organization, and internal bleeding is when something inside the body is bleeding.
What did Karl Benz do?
Karl Benz designed and built the world's first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
How many internal combustion engines are in operation today world wide?
All totaled, how many internal combustion engines are in operation today world wide?
What was the world's first car?
The world's first successful car that used a internal combustion engine was the Benz Patent Motor Car by Karl Benz. He is generally considered the father of the modern automobile. But he was not the first. There were steam powered automobiles (some which didn't really work well) before that.
In what year was the cars invented?
1672 - First internal combustion engine which was fuelled by a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen and develop the world's first vehicle to run on such an engine. 1885 - Karl Benz built an automobile powered by an Otto gasoline engine. He received a patent in the 1886 for the same. Mr. Benz is generally credited with the invention of the modern automobile.
What effects did the internal combustion engine have on transportation?
The Internal Combustion Engine was a extreme improvement of the best engine of its time, the steam engine. The internal combustion engine was smaller and far more powerful for its size. Since the discovery of SpindleTop, which produced massive amounts of oil, a source of fuel was freely available for the new engine. Since the extreme amount of oil was found, oil prices dropped, the internal combustion engine became more practical, and cheaper than a steam engine, which used Coal instead of oil, which back then was extremely cheap. The thing about oil is that oil is also cleaner than coal, and is easier to transport. After Spindle Top Oil Barrels cost about 4 cents, a Barrel contains 31 gallons of oil, which is about 3/5 of the Gas Tank of a Dodge Ram (52 Gallons).
Was the USS Maine a reason why the US got involved in World War 1?
No the USS Maine was sunk by internal combustion in the Spanish American War
Who invented the modern car and when?
For that question to be sensibly answerable, you should really add a description or what you consider to be a "modern car".Karl Benz, the German mechanical engineer who designed, patented and in 1885 built the world's first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
What is the oldest car in the world?
The oldest car in the world is considered to be the 1886 Benz Patent-Motorwagen, which was created by Karl Benz. It is widely regarded as the first automobile that was designed to be propelled by an internal combustion engine.
