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Stirling engine
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Stirling engine
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(Engineering / Mechanical Engineering) an external-combustion engine that uses air or an inert gas as the working fluid operating on a highly efficient thermodynamic cycle (the Stirling cycle)
[named after Robert Stirling (1790-1878), Scottish minister who invented it]
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One of these, a 1968 GM "Stir-Lec," was a converted 1968 Opel Kadett with a small eight-horsepower Sterling engine as its battery charging unit.
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Hageman's Engine works by expansion of fluids pushing pistons, similar to the Sterling Engine, except that the new design uses expansion of liquids rather than gases as with the Sterling.
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