William McNaught (Glasgow)
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William McNaught (Glasgow)
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William McNaught (1813–1881) was a Scottish engineer, from Glasgow, who patented a compound steam engine in 1845. This was a technique of improving the efficiency of a standard simple Boulton & Watt beam engine. The engine was compounded by adding a high-pressure cylinder between the support column and the flywheel, on the side opposite the low-pressure cylinder. This improvement could be retrospectively fitted to existing engines.
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Scottish engineer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McNaught_(Glasgow)
date created:
2010-06-14T22:26:03Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T13:47:35Z
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