单词 | disc engine |
释义 | > as lemmasdisc engine disc engine n. Mechanics any of various engines in which compression and expansion of the working fluid occurs in a space created by a nutating or rotating disc in an enclosed chamber; (in later use) spec. an internal combustion engine involving a nutating disc.The earliest engines of this type were steam engines (an early one, with a nutating disc, was invented by Edward and James Dakeyne in 1830). ΚΠ 1833 Mechanics' Mag. 18 242 One of these half oscillatory, half revolving [hydraulic] disc engines. 1845 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 39 736 Mr. H. Davies has constructed eight towing boats, fitted with disk engines, for the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal Company. 1855 Mechanics' Mag. 63 266 In 1849 disc engines..were employed with great success in the printing office of the Times. 1880 U.S. Patent 228,906 1/1 This invention relates to an improvement in that kind of rotary motors commonly called ‘disk-engines’. 1999 Sunday Express (Nexis) 7 Nov. His Nutating Disc Engine relies on a disc, about 10 inches across, ‘wobbling like a spinning coin’. 2001 B. Bowers Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS (ed. 2) viii. 93 The disc engine has a barrel-shaped cylinder and its ‘piston’ is a disc fixed on a ball and socket joint at the centre of the barrel. < as lemmas |
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