Manson Engine
The Manson engine is a hot air engine that was first described by A. D. Manson in the March 1952 issue of ''Newnes Practical Mechanics''-Magazines. Manson engines can be started in either direction (clockwise or anti-clockwise). It has a stepped piston. The front part acts as a displacer and the back part acts as a work piston (the displacer and the work piston move as a single component). The engine only requires three moving parts: piston, piston rod, and crank. The engine is single- and double-acting cylinders, double acting, using both the expansion of the warmed air and atmospheric pressure overcoming the reducing pressure of the cooling air to do work. The engine currently has no commercial or practical applications. The engines are built mainly as desk toys, physics demonstrations, and novelties. Functioning mechanism * Phase 1 (cooling down the work medium, suction stroke) ** when the Piston is moved toward the heat source, the hot gas inside the engine is moved to the ...
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