Elijah Galloway

Elijah Galloway († March 4, 1856 ) was a British inventor and engineer .

According to mentoring, he worked in the counties of Middlesex and Surrey in southern England around 1835 .

In 1844, Galloway produced a substance called Kamptulikon from cork particles that were bound together by gutta-percha (a product obtained from the milky sap of palaquium trees ; Malaysia, Indonesia}). However, on February 14, 1844, the invention was patented under no. 10054 not as a floor covering, but as a painting base.

Elijah Galloway built in 1846, the first internal-axis rotary piston - steam engine . He created the first displacement engine that had no external or internal meshing, but rather a so-called circular mesh. He used it as a ship engine and achieved an output of 16 hp at 4-500 / min. Despite its ingenious simplicity, the engine could not prevail against the increasingly perfect reciprocating piston steam engines. Their steam consumption was far too high due to a lack of sealing.

literature

• Elijah Galloway: History of the steam engine: from its first invention to the present time. London 1826
• Elijah Galloway and Luke Hebert: History and progress of the steam engine. Printed for T. Kelly, London 1832
• Elijah Galloway: Description of an improved system of railway traction. J. Weale, 1846

See also

• Wankel engine # History of rotary piston engines

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mechanics' Magazine. Badn 64, London, 1856, No. 1711, May 24, 1856, p. 491 ( digitized version )
2. ^ Polytechnical Journal. New series, volume 10 (volume 60 of the entire series), Cotta, Stuttgart 1836, p. 400, 401, 409–412 ( digitized version )
3. ↑ Linoleum ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on elkage.de 
4. ↑ http://dingler.culture.hu-berlin.de/search?q=Elijah+Galloway