| The Philips Stirling Engine |  | Author: Clifford M. Hargreaves
Publisher: Elsevier Science Pub Co
Category: Book
Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 2567983
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 458
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 10 x 6.8 x 1.2
ISBN: 0444884637
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.42
EAN: 9780444884633
ASIN: 0444884637
Publication Date: October 1, 1991
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Product Description
This book is about the Stirling engine and its development from the heavy cast-iron machine of the nineteenth century into the efficient high-speed engine of today. It is not a handbook: it does not tell the reader how to build a Stirling engine. It is rather the history of a research effort spanning nearly fifty years, together with an outline of principles, some technical details and descriptions of the more important engines. No one will dispute the position of Philips as the pioneer of the modern Stirling engine. Hence the title of the book, hence also the contents, which are confined largely to the Philips work on the subject. Valuable work has been done elsewhere but this is discussed only marginally in order to keep the book within a reasonable size. The book is addressed to a wide audience on an academic level. The first two chapters can be read by the technically interested layman but after that some engineering background and elementary mathematics are generally necessary. Heat engines are traditionally the engineer's route to thermodynamics: in this context, the Stirling engine, which is the simplest of all heat engines, is more suited as a practical example than either the steam engine or the internal-combustion engine. The book is also addressed to historians of technology, from the viewpoint of the twentieth century revival of the Stirling engine as well as its nineteenth century origins.
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A MUST read for anyone interested in the Stirling engine. July 11, 1998
19 out of 20 found this review helpful
Although presented as a history of the Phillips Stirling engine efforts, (which it is) the clarity of the explanations of quite complex thermodynamic processes is quite suitable for the non-engineer. Hargreaves describes the journey of this remarkable device from 17th century Scotland to WWII Netherlands to Detroit, Michigan USA. For anyone seriously interested in understanding the kinematic Stirling engine, this is the book to read.
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