Numerous inventors started a hot air engine venture, many scientists wrote about this engine, hundreds of patents were filed, thousands of articles have been written. An enormous amount of work has been dedicated to this technology. All of this resulted in an incredible amount of learning and science. A history of the Hot Air Engine is a way to leverage on a century of acquired knowledge and experience. It is based on the scrutiny of numerous archives between 1800 and 1920, most of them being books, magazines, scientific review, articles, patents.
Year | Inventor | Country | Engine page |
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1699 | Amontons | France | Le moulin à feu d'Amontons |
1784 | Montgolfier | France | La pompe à feu de Montgolfier |
1807 | Cayley | England | Cayley's air engine |
1816 | Stirling | Scotland | Stirling engine |
1825 | Bresson | France | La machine à air chaud de Bresson |
1827 | Stirling | Scotland | Stirling engine |
1828 | Parkinson & Crosley | England | Parkinson & Crosley Motive Engine |
1829 | Arnott | England | Arnott air engine |
1833 | Ericsson | Sweden / England | Ericsson caloric engine |
1837 | Cayley | England | Cayley air engine |
1838 | Franchot | France | Le moteur à air chaud de Franchot |
1845 | Gordon | Scotland | Gordon's fumific impeller |
1847 | Lemoine | France | Lemoine air machine |
1851 | Ericsson | Sweden / America | Ericsson caloric engine |
1853 | Woodbury | America | Woodbury atmospheric engine |
1854 | Shaw | America | Shaw air engine |
1855 | Franchot | France | Le moteur sériaire à air chaud de Franchot |
1860 | Wilcox | America | Wilcox hot air engine |
1861 | Shaw | America | Shaw air engine |
1862 | Roper | America | Roper caloric beam engine |
1861 | Mouchot | France | Mouchot sun motor |
1867 | Lehmann | Germany | Lehmann'sche Luftexpansionsmaschine |
1868 | Ericsson | Sweden / America | Ericsson sun motor |
1868 | Wenham | England | Wenham heated-air engine |
1871 | Rider | America | Rider's Hot air engine |
1875 | Rider | America | Rider's Hot air engine |
1881 | Robinson | England | Robinson's Hot air engine |