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    invented a manually controlled precursor of the hydraulic ram called the "pulsation engine" and installed the first one at Oulton, Cheshire to raise water to...
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    A straight-four engine (also referred to as an inline-four engine) is a four-cylinder piston engine where cylinders are arranged in a line along a common...
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    even firing) especially in forced induction engines; this reduces torque pulsations and makes inline engines with more than 3 cylinders statically balanced...
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    most V6 engines use a harmonic damper on the crankshaft and/or a counter-rotating balance shaft. Six-cylinder designs have less pulsation in the power...
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    system 2-1-2 branch exhaust manifold per cylinder bank to minimise reverse pulsation of expelled exhaust gases DIN-rated motive power & torque outputs, ID...
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    British clockmaker John Whitehurst had invented its precursor, the "pulsation engine". In 1797, Montgolfier's friend Matthew Boulton took out a British...
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    Volkswagen-Audi V8 engine family is a series of mechanically similar, gasoline-powered and diesel-powered, V-8, internal combustion piston engines, developed...
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  • 4-into-2-into-1 fan-branch exhaust manifold per cylinder bank to minimise reverse pulsation of expelled exhaust gases (RS 4), or fan branch manifold with integrated...
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    Hyundai's Kappa automobile engine series consists of three-cylinder and four-cylinder models. The Kappa engine series are gasoline powered, all-aluminum...
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    — 2-1-2 branch exhaust manifold per cylinder bank to minimise reverse pulsation of expelled exhaust gasses 5.0 power and torque outputs and applications...
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    using engine vacuum or crankcase pressure pulsations. Diesel engines use fuel injection. Most small engines use a governor to maintain a constant engine speed...
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  • overlapping power strokes (such as engines with four or fewer cylinders), the pulsations in power delivery vibrate the engine rotationally on the X axis, similar...
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    around the engine improves exhaust gas performance by reducing fuel temperature differences between the delivery pipes, reducing pulsations within the...
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    due in part to their short periods. The mechanics of stellar pulsation as a heat-engine was proposed in 1917 by Arthur Stanley Eddington (who wrote at...
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  • North West England. Polythene — invented in 1933, at ICI in Northwich. Pulsation Engine — a precursor to the hydraulic ram, invented by John Whitehurst in...
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    Ferguson.[citation needed] In 1772 - aged 59 years- he invented the "pulsation engine" (not to be mixed up with a Pulser pump), a water-raising device which...
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    Dolivo-Dobrovolsky claimed that Tesla's motor was not practical because of two-phase pulsations, which prompted him to persist in his three-phase work. The General Electric...
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    Top Fuel (section Engine)
    even pulsation, the 180 degree crankshaft can offer increased power in engines with interacting exhaust. However this does not concern Top Fuel engines with...
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    Roots blower (category Two-stroke diesel engines)
    Roots-type blower pumps air in discrete pulses (unlike a screw compressor), pulsation noise and turbulence may be transmitted downstream. If not properly managed...
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  • pump, to respond more quickly to a temporary demand, and to smooth out pulsations. It is a type of energy storage device. Compressed gas accumulators, also...
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    power is demanded (high engine speed and load), intake valve closing timing is retarded to synchronize the intake air pulsations for larger air volume....
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    use three plungers, which reduces the pulsation relative to single reciprocating plunger pumps. Adding a pulsation dampener on the pump outlet can further...
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  • experimental music and composers that had "this kind of heartbeat or pulsation...related to the heartbeat of the new human being or the way you can feel...
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  • rotary screw is a continuous sweeping motion, so there is very little pulsation or surging of flow, as occurs with piston compressors. This also allows...
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    Short Stirling (category Four-engined tractor aircraft)
    driven by the inner port engine, while the dorsal turret was powered by a single pump driven by the inner starboard engine. Pulsations in the hydraulic lines...
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    reduces suction and discharge pulsations. Therefore, it is difficult to state whether scroll compressors have lower pulsation levels than reciprocating compressors...
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    in car mufflers. The noisy equipment became quieter and the hydraulic pulsation was significantly reduced. Overall, the domestic design showed driving...
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  • credited for identifying ionized helium as the valve for the heat engine that drives the pulsation of Cepheid variable stars. S. A. Zhevakin was born on April...
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    Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II (category Single-engined jet aircraft)
    Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is an American family of single-seat, single-engine, supersonic stealth strike fighters. A multirole combat aircraft designed...
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  • audible thumping and honking at frequencies as low as 1 Hertz, pressure pulsations throughout the machine, and severe mechanical vibration. Compressor surge...
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