Corliss valve steam engine
Máquina de vapor de válvulas Corliss
- Date
- 1849 · confidence high
- Place
- Providence, Rhode Island, United States
- Credited to
- George H. Corliss
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
An engine with independent rotary admission and exhaust valves and a governor that cuts off admission at the right moment depending on load. It saved 30 to 40% of fuel compared with earlier engines.
The design was patented in 1849 and improved with a patent in 1851.
What it led to
- cheaper factory power in the 19th century
- the great central engine of the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition
- the standard for stationary power until turbines