Arthur Woolf

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Woolf compound engine working principle (Heat Engines, 1913) .png
Woolfsche balancing machine, steam engine Kuhn No. 100 .

Arthur Woolf (* 1766 in Camborne, Cornwall , † October 26, 1837 in Guernsey ) was an engineer from Cornwall. He became known as the inventor of a high-pressure compound steam engine (Woolf compound steam engines), which is also known as Woolf's balancing machine or balancing steam engine . Likewise for his contribution to the development and improvement of high-pressure pumping machines (balancing pumps), which made greater excavation depths possible in mining because of the improvement in water retention (see also Richard Trevithick ).

Woolf left Cornwall in 1785 to work for Joseph Bramah in London . He worked there and at other companies as an engineer and mechanical engineer.

In 1803 Woolf received a patent for an improved high-pressure steam boiler and in 1804 for the two-cylinder compound steam engine ( English : Compound engine).

In 1811 he returned to Cornwall. Michael Loam, inventor of a man engine , was trained by him. Woolf was the chief engineer at the Hayle Foundry and Machine Factory (Harvey & Co).

See also

literature

  • Thomas Robert Harris, Arthur Woolf, The Cornish engineer , 1766-1837, Truro Verlag, Barton 1966, 1st edition.

Web links

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