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Definition of External-combustion engine
1. Noun. A heat engine in which ignition occurs outside the chamber (cylinder or turbine) in which heat is converted to mechanical energy.
Lexicographical Neighbors of External-combustion Engine
Literary usage of External-combustion engine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1913)
"If the latent heat of the fuel is rendered potential outside of the engine, the
latter is spoken of as an external-combustion engine; but, if the heat is ..."
2. A Short History of Science by William Thompson Sedgwick, Harry Walter Tyler (1917)
"It is therefor^ an external-combustion engine. Obviously, if the fuel burned is
made to liberate its heat in the cylinder instead of the furnace, ..."
3. The Encyclopædia of Municipal and Sanitary Engineering: A Handy Working by William Henry Maxwell (1910)
"In the external-combustion engine, heat is generated in a furnace and transmitted
through the metal sides of a vessel containing a working fluid, ..."
4. Elements of Heat-power Engineering by Clarence Floyd Hirshfeld, William Nichols Barnard (1915)
"... the maximum temperature is that due to combustion; whereas in the external-combustion
engine the maximum temperature of the working substance is limited ..."
5. The Steam-engine and Other Heat-engines by James Alfred Ewing (1902)
"An engine supplied with heat in this way may be called an external-combustion
engine, to distinguish it from the very important class of engines in which ..."
6. Internal Combustion Engine Manual by Frank Ward Sterling (1917)
"Hence in the gas engine vernacular it is called an external combustion engine.
On the other hand, fuel is fed directly to the cylinder of an internal ..."
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