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stirling engine

for Smile On Saturdays theme "Copyright by Mankind"

A Stirling engine is a heat engine that operates by cyclic compression and expansion of air or other gas (the working fluid) at different temperatures, such that there is a net conversion of heat energy to mechanical work. You can use any material to produce the heat.

This is a model which actually runs by lighting the alcohol burner. My dear hubby built it a few years ago.

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Uploaded on October 6, 2018
Taken on October 5, 2018