JIM HOLSONBACK wrote in a message to JAMES BRADLEY:

 JH> Hello, James!
-=> on 04-29-05 05:45, JAMES BRADLEY wrote to ALL <=-

 JB> Has anyone heard of a Sterling engine, and could someone thumbnail it
 JB> for me? It reportedly works on differential compression between two
 JB> cylinders; hot and cold sides. The TV show did play Three-seconds of
 JB> animation of one working, but either the detail was not accurate, or
 JB> the resolution of NTSC wasn't up to the task, but there didn't seem to
 JB> be any valves on it. "Anybody... Anybody... Beuler?" 

 JH> One explanation can be found at
 JH> http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/~amit/courses/371/abhishe/main2.html 

 JH> Google searches on "Sterling Cycle" and "Sterling
Cycle Engine"
 JH> also turn up some other hits.  One of them is a site which shows
 JH> and does some explaining of  a working model which they sell.

I have a number of yahoo lists flowing in here for various aspects of
machining and CNC stuff,  and the subject seems to come up with fair
regularity.  People are building such engines,  though I don't know if
they're actually using them to do any useful work.

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