Re: diesels

Posted by jdemaris on December 18, 2006 at 12:26:18 from (66.218.17.164):

In Reply to: Re: diesels posted by RustyFarmall on December 18, 2006 at 11:57:31:

What is usually called a "two-stroke" today was - years ago - usually referred to as a "two stroke cycle" engine - which makes more sense. Somewhere along the way, one of the words is dropped, and we get "two cycle" or "two stroke" instead.
As I understand it - only from reading - i.e. can't say I was there - A British guy named Dugald Clark invented the first working diesel in 1878 - and it was a supercharged two-stroke-cycle machine. It is his design that G.M. Detroit Diesel later adopted in the late 30s. It was also a few years before Rudolph Diesel got his four-stroke-cycle compression engine going in 1893 - which barely ran. His first good one was 1896.

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