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icarus

Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 11:22 am Post subject: Brunel's "Gaz Engine"

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Can anyone tell me more about this? Brunel wasted a lot of time and effort on this machine that came to nothing. What was it and on which principles was it based?

spirytus

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:42 pm Post subject:

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I got curious my self so I googled it. 15 minutes netted me very little information;

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in 1833, he finally abandoned a decade-long private project to develop an engine — he called it a "gaz" engine — powered by gas pressure as an alternative to steam.

Source: http://www.engineering-timelines.com/who/Brunel_IK/brunelIK4.asp

Pneumatic engine?? meh...
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icarus

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:15 pm Post subject:

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Thanks spirytus. Bit of a weird one this. The man spent a decade researching this and yet I can't find a thing about it. Brunel was no dummy. He must have been on to something. He must have been sponsered/funded. No drawings, no prototypes, no anecdotal evidence?
All the engineers I've ever met fall over themselves at the opportunity to explain how a machine works to an enthusiastic layman.
Would anyone even care to have a guess at what IKB was working towards?

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