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  • Thumbnail for Bellows
    Chinese into the double-action piston bellows, replacing the native Chinese ox hide pot or drum bellows completely. Piston bellows were independently developed...
    13 KB (1,742 words) - 01:54, 6 July 2024
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    principles governing fire pistons were also used to construct Southeast Asian piston bellows with bamboo. These piston bellows could pump sufficient air...
    24 KB (3,024 words) - 12:07, 18 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Metallurgy
    furnace, cast iron, hydraulic-powered trip hammers, and double acting piston bellows. Metallurgy derives from the Ancient Greek μεταλλουργός, metallourgós...
    37 KB (4,048 words) - 14:24, 9 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Reciprocating engine
    reciprocating engine, also often known as a piston engine, is typically a heat engine that uses one or more reciprocating pistons to convert high temperature and...
    21 KB (2,704 words) - 03:57, 27 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Du Shi
    e. a waterwheel) to operate bellows (air-blowing device) in metallurgy. His invention was used to operate piston-bellows of the blast furnace and then...
    11 KB (1,443 words) - 16:20, 21 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Blast furnace
    engineer Du Shi (c. AD 31), who applied the power of waterwheels to piston-bellows in forging cast iron. Early water-driven reciprocators for operating...
    62 KB (7,277 words) - 08:33, 13 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Flamethrower
    required to ignite the flames. The Chinese applied the use of double-piston bellows to pump petrol out of a single cylinder (with an upstroke and a downstroke)...
    67 KB (7,628 words) - 02:34, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hydropower
    the engineer Du Shi (c. AD 31) applied the power of waterwheels to piston-bellows in forging cast iron. Ancient Indian texts dating back to the 4th century...
    59 KB (7,421 words) - 23:58, 19 June 2024
  • linearly. The metal bellows accumulators function similarly to the compressed gas type, except that the elastic diaphragm or floating piston is replaced by...
    15 KB (1,940 words) - 17:07, 11 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kris
    metal, Ganesha in the center, and Arjuna on the right operating the piston bellows to blow air into the furnace. The wall behind the blacksmith displays...
    64 KB (7,219 words) - 01:27, 10 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Military technology
    gunpowder in a battle.: 81–83  The Chinese applied the use of double-piston bellows to pump petrol out of a single cylinder (with an upstroke and downstroke)...
    33 KB (4,090 words) - 13:48, 22 July 2024
  • sylphon, or bellows, is used, among other purposes, to transfer motion through the wall of a vacuum chamber. It can be used as a squeeze piston for simple...
    2 KB (207 words) - 07:26, 3 July 2022
  • Dynasty were using water wheels to crush grain in mills and to power the piston-bellows in forging iron ore into cast iron. In the text known as the Xin Lun...
    78 KB (9,420 words) - 03:35, 10 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of chemistry
    furnace, cast iron, hydraulic-powered trip hammers, and double-acting piston bellows. Philosophical attempts to rationalize why different substances have...
    155 KB (19,255 words) - 14:17, 7 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Science and technology of the Song dynasty
    use of gunpowder in a battle. The Chinese applied the use of double-piston bellows to pump petrol out of a single cylinder (with an upstroke and downstroke)...
    78 KB (9,702 words) - 03:40, 16 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of metallurgy in China
    engineer Du Shi (c. AD 31), who applied the power of waterwheels to piston-bellows in forging cast iron. Early water-driven reciprocators for operating...
    41 KB (5,135 words) - 12:51, 3 August 2024
  • provide clearance for the piston. Renault's pneumatic valve technology replaced steel springs with light weight compressed air bellows. These could retract...
    4 KB (489 words) - 08:03, 20 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Chinese inventions
    soldiers. Free reed aerophone: The musical pipe organ employing metal piston bellows had a long history in the Western world, dating from the Hellenistic...
    269 KB (34,843 words) - 07:34, 31 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Timeline of the Han dynasty
    southern Central Plains and Shandong 31 Du Shi uses waterwheels to power piston-bellows for blast furnaces 32 Ban Gu is born 34 Emperor Guangwu of Han defeats...
    40 KB (793 words) - 23:06, 22 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wax thermostatic element
    were made in the form of a cylindrical bellows. As the liquid boiled inside the capsule, the capsule bellows expanded, opening a sheet brass plug valve...
    12 KB (1,568 words) - 12:38, 20 February 2024
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