Diesel locomotive

information is at our fingertips. This was unimaginable 200 years ago. It is amazing to see how far humans have come since then. A lot of it is credited to a few key people and inventions from the early 1800s. The first of these inventions is the steam locomotive. This may have been the most defining and important invention during this era. It started to connect the otherwise separated country by making travel substantially faster. Postal services also made use of the steam locomotive’s record…

patented the principle of the diesel engine in 1893. Since 1900, the diesel engine has been used in practically all the heavy industry and in any place that needs tremendous power. In the diesel engine, air alone is compressed in the cylinder; then, after the air has been compressed, injector vaporizes a charge of fuel into the cylinder, and ignition is accomplished by the heat of compression. The main difference between the diesel engine and the gasoline engine is: the diesel engine use a…

efficiency rating. I was a MM1 in my part of my Navy career so I learned and focused heavily on steam propulsion and power generation. After the second half of my first part of my career I transitioned over to the Diesel Side. I later was cross rated to Engineman since all I did was Diesel work primarily. I have been ASE certified Auto Mechanic since 2005 and both my step dads were mechanics growing up. So I have a fair amount of experience at everything to make my conclusions. I ran an…

Industrialism Essay Every aspect of life someway has been influenced by the industrial revolution. The industrial revolution took place from around 1760 to 1820 (19th century). Beginning with Great Britain within a few decades spread throughout the western hemisphere. This revolution transformed old manufacturing processes by speeding production methods through machinery, chemical manufacturing, and increasing use of steam and electrical power. One of the most important changes of the industrial…

Steam power, from boiling water in a simple kettle to massive boilers towering a hundred feet into the air are most certainly impressive. One Japanese animated feature film captures the grandeur of steam power in Katsuhiro Otomo’s “Steamboy” released in 2004. “Steamboy” is about a young 13-year-old inventor James Ray Steam who lives in Manchester, England in 1866 who is caught in the middle of a deadly conflict over a revolutionary steam powered device created by his father and grandfather.…

Two British examples of old, antique railway structures built prior to 1840, a tunnel and a bridge, now have protected status. This is thanks to a recent decision in the country by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. In 2014, the Guinness Book of Records named the Fritchely Tunnel one of the globe’s oldest railroad tunnels still left in existence. Built in 1793, the Fritchley Tunnel is 25 meters long and is constructed of sandstone blocks. It was built to be a section of the Butterley…

During the 20th century, the industrial revolution had three positive effects on the economy. the three important reasons are new technology, transportation, and the assembly line. During the 20th century many things changed for better. Some improvements and inventions changed the way people live and work, others just made things more efficient such as the assembly line invented in 1913 by Henry Ford. Other new technology such as the maxim gun invented by Hiram Maxim in 1884. This invention was…

pliers to be “whittling” and his steam engines to be “carvings.” Mooney’s history of the steam engine began with him carving the Hero 's Engine from 250 BC. Sixty-four steam engines later his work ended with the carving of the Union Pacific Big Boy Locomotive of 1941. All of his masterpieces are made out of walnut, ivory, and ebony. Although being unable to afford ivory in the beginning, Mooney’s first fifteen train carvings were made of bone and walnut. The bone was beef bone that he saved and…

But this is where one of the greatest downfalls of the steam engine comes in. The steam engine was so successful that factory owners were realizing it didn’t need such large workforce anymore. The steam engine was one of the most economically important inventions of all time. “The steam engine essentially created the Industrial Revolution. It did this in at least two ways. First, it provided the power for huge textile mills in England. Second, it helped allow the mining of coal from places…

car or airplane, but how did people travel in the 19th century? The answer is by trains that were run on railroads, specifically the Iron Horse. Well, you might be asking what exactly is the Iron Horse? The Iron Horse is a term used for steam locomotives. It was used when comparing early road and railroad traction engine’s performance to slower, less powerful horse powered tramways. The Iron Horse was the most significant contribution to the development of the economy of railroads, the more…