Hi Elvis Hargrove, hope you are having a nice day
Monday, 25 August 1997 03:57:11, Elvis Hargrove wrote to Day Brown
Subject: Heat Engine Electric
->> But, do you remember that heat engine in high school physics
->> lab? put a bunsen burner to the finned head of this little jobbie
->> and it would start to push the piston/flywheel like a steam engine?
 EH> I sorta remember it, but it didn't have much torque as I
 EH> remember it. It's sure enough over my head though. That's something
 EH> with which I've NEVER tinkered.
LOYS, I have never seen this engine you described, but at an agricultural 
field day I saw what was described as a coke engine.
Seems this engine burnt coke or hard wood and the heat from the fire some how 
drove a huge piston.
The engine was used to pump water for some fourty years and apparently lifted 
water some fourty five feet up a hill. I believe it was run some eight hours 
each day for the course of it's working life.
Allways struck me as one of life's little puzzles really.
 -=> Yours sincerely, Jock Rogan <=-
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.!. Nostalgia just ain't what it used to be ...
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