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George Stephenson
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What is cugnot steam traction engine?
It is the first mechanized vehicle. Built circa 1770, it had 3 wheels with the steam boiler in the very front. 1770!!
What invention of James watts drove the wheels of other machines and was soon used in factories?
Steam Engine
Why do you put coal in trains?
You put coal to boil the water in the boiler to raise steam to drive the pistons which turns the wheels.
How do steam trains travel?
By boling water, usually with coal or wood, thereby making steam that drove pistons under pressure. The pistons were attached to the drive wheels that were usually linked to 'freewheels' and the wheels drove the engine along the 'railway lines'
Does a train use steam for power?
Steam does create the power to turn the wheels. The steam is created by using coal fire, to heat up the water into steam. the expansion of the steam pushes out the piston, which in turn turns the wheels.
What type of combustion engine in the steam engine?
A steam engine is an external combustion engine. As the steam engine combusts outside of the engine itself.
When was the streamboat invented?
Following the successful installation of a steam engine on four wheels in 1769 by French man Cugnot, tests were made to use the steam engine on boats. As propellers had not been created yet, the first steam boats used wheels. The British and French army engineers started testing on rivers in the early 1780's. In 1803 a demonstration was given demonstration was given to Napoleon on the river Seine.
Do they put out the fire of a steam engine every night?
If you are talking about a steam powered fire engine, for fire fighting, the answer is yes. If you are talking about a steam engine fed steam from a boiler, the answer is maybe. Some plants shut down their boilers nightly, others don't. Steam engines themselves however, do not use fire to operate, only boilers do.
What does a nuclear reactor use to make heat?
The way a reactor works is rods of a radioactive material(say, uranium),are put into a bath of water, the heat from the radioactivity causes the water to vaporize. The steam then runes through wheels, the steam pushes the wheels and the wheels turning is used to generate electricity. But the heat is caused by radiation.
When did the steam engine put farmers out of work?
In the 1830's steam engines started to put farmers out of work, so they moved into towns and hoped they would find a job there.
Are steamboats related to locomotives?
A steamboat has a steam engine to drive its paddle wheel or screws to push the boat along in the water. The original railway locomotives had steam engines to drive their wheels. That's the relationship.
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.
