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Compression Ignition: Otto, Diesel and Thermal Efficiency
Three milestones in which an engine was designed from a thermodynamic argument rather than developed from an existing machine, and immediately outperformed everything else.
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Thermodynamics
Every page in the KEVOS library tagged Thermodynamics. 10 pages.
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Fluids and Comfort: Powered Flight, Sailing Hydrodynamics and Air Conditioning
Three milestones united by fluid mechanics: a machine that generates lift to fly, a rig that generates lift to outrun the wind, and a cycle that moves heat against its gradient.
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From Vacuum to Engine: Savery, Newcomen, Smeaton and Watt
Five milestones across eighty years that turn a laboratory observation about atmospheric pressure into a general source of industrial power.
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Heat into Work: The Gas Turbine and the Fission Reactor
Two technologies with a straightforward efficiency argument that says run hotter, and one shared constraint: both are limited by what the hot parts are made of, not by thermodyn…
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Light and the Central Station: Electricity Finds a Mass Market
Six milestones in which electricity acquired its first mass market, and in which the decisive engineering turned out to be system design rather than lamp design.
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Power to the Water: Screw Propulsion, Expansion Engines and Oil Firing
Four milestones in which marine propulsion moved from consuming most of the ship to leaving room for the cargo that paid for it.
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Prime Movers: The Internal Combustion Engine and Diesel-Electric Traction
Spark ignition against compression ignition, why compression ratio governs efficiency, and how diesel-electric traction solved the transmission problem by deleting it.
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Steam Afloat and on Rails: Wilkinson, Trevithick, Fulton and Rainhill
Four milestones in which the compact high-pressure engine and the iron hull between them end the age in which transport meant wind, water and muscle.
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Steel Beyond Bessemer: Regenerative Heat, the Basic Process and Alloy Steels
Four milestones showing a field that acquired chemistry rather than physics, and in which the decisive advance came from a part-time experimenter working in a cellar.
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The First Practical Motor Car: Benz and the Features That Stuck
Three milestones, and an unusually clean case of a first design getting the architecture right, plus a patent case worth knowing.
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