Whiting Aerosteam Engine, Patent Model
date: label: date made
content: 1879
label: patent date
content: 1879-07-22
name: label: inventor
content: Whiting, James M.
notes: label: Description
content: This model was submitted to the U.S. Patent Office with its application for Patent no. 217758, issued to James M. Whiting, of Providence, Rhode Island, July 22, 1879.
label: Description
content: This is an example of combined air and steam engines, many designs of which have been proposed and built. In this engine the use of steam is intended to reduce the bulk of the heated air required to operate an engine of a given capacity and consequently reduce the size of the engine.
label: Description
content: The model shows a vertical fire-tube steam boiler of ordinary construction above the tubes of which is placed a hollow drum that is heated by the hot gases from the boiler. There is also a small steam pump and a vertical high-speed steam engine of the slide-valve type. Steam from the boiler is mixed with the heated air in the upper drum, and the mixture of heated air and steam is led directly to the engine and expanded. The air pump supplies air to the heated drum.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: This description comes from the 1939 Catalog of the Mechanical Collections of the Division of Engineering United States Museum Bulletin 173 by Frank A. Taylor.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island
label: associated place
content: United States: Rhode Island, Providence
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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content: Bulletin 173
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content: Engineering, Building, and Architecture
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content: Work
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Frank A. Taylor. Catalog of the Mechanical Collections of the Division of Engineering United States National Museum, Bulletin 173
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ER.251285
label: accession number
content: 48865
label: catalog number
content: 251285
label: patent number
content: 217,758
objectType: label: Object Name
content: air & steam engine, model
label: Object Name
content: patent model, engine, steam & air
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: sheet iron (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 10 1/4 in x 10 1/4 in; 30.48 cm x 26.035 cm x 26.035 cm
label: Measurements
content: iron base - from catalog card: 10 in x 10 in; 25.4 cm x 25.4 cm