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Steam engines
Operating cycle Atmospheric • Watt • Cornish • Compound • Uniflow
Valves Valves Slide • D slide • Piston • Drop • Corliss • Poppet • Sleeve • Bash
Valve gear Gab • Stephenson link • Joy • Walschaerts • Allan • Baker • Corliss • Lentz • Caprotti • Gresley conjugated • Southern
Mechanisms Beam • Cataract • Centrifugal governor • Connecting rod • Crank • Crankshaft • Tusi couple hypocycloidal straight line mechanism • Link chain • Parallel motion • Plate chain • Rotative beam • Sun and planet gear • Watt's linkage
Boilers Simple boilers Haystack • Wagon • Egg-ended • Box • Flued • Cornish • Lancashire
Fire-tube boilers Locomotive • Scotch • Launch
Water-tube boilers Babcock & Wilcox • Field-tube • Sentinel • Stirling • Thimble tube • Three-drum • Yarrow
Boiler feed Feedwater heater • Feedwater pump • Injector
Cylinder Locomotive • Oscillating • Single- and double-acting
Condenser Condensing steam locomotive • Jet • Kirchweger • Watt's separate • "Pickle-pot" • Surface
Other Blowback • Crosshead • Cutoff • Expansion valve • Hydrolock • Piston • Reciprocating engine • Return connecting rod engine • Six-column beam engine • Steeple engine • Safety valve • Steeple compound engine • Stroke • Working fluid
History Precursors Savery Engine (1698)
Newcomen engine Newcomen Memorial Engine (1725) • Fairbottom Bobs (1760) • Elsecar Engine (1795)
Watt engine Beam Kinneil Engine (1768) • Old Bess (1777) • Chacewater Mine engine (1778) • Smethwick Engine (1779) • Resolution (1781)
Rotative beam Soho Manufactory engine (1782) • Bradley Works engine (1783) • Whitbread Engine (1785) • National Museum of Scotland engine (1786) • Lap Engine (1788)
High-pressure Richard Trevithick • Puffing Devil (1801) • London Steam Carriage (1803) • "Coalbrookdale Locomotive" (1803) • "Pen-y-Darren" locomotive (1804)
Compound Woolf's compound engine (1803)
Murray Murray's Hypocycloidal Engine (1805) • Salamanca (1812)
High-speed Porter-Allen (1862) • Ljungström (1908)
See also Glossary of steam locomotive components • History of steam road vehicles • Cugnot's fardier à vapeur (1769) • Murdoch's model steam carriage (1784) • Lean's Engine Reporter • List of steam technology patents • Modern steam • Stationary steam engine • Timeline of steam power • Water-returning engine
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