[Stoves] Bisschop part 2

[Jeff Davis]

Dear List,

I'm sending this to the stove list, in addition to gasification list, because 
it could be helpful for the 3rd world people. It has been written that this 
engine could easily be operated by a young boy or girl. This is a very simple 
engine.


More info about the Bisschop engine.

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from “Internal Fire”
by Lyle Cummins

The most successful non-compression gas engine ever built was a “rough and 
ready” creation by the Parisian, Alexis de Bisschop. This small, 
single-acting motor cost little to buy and gave reliable service. The 
Bisschop engine arrived on the market three years after the Otto and Langen 
engine had all but driven off other non-compression makes. Nevertheless, it 
survived and proliferated because it supplied a need at the lower end of the 
power spectrum. The more popular models were of one-third horsepower or less, 
and while the specific fuel consumption was high at 150 cubic feet of gas per 
horsepower hour (three times that of the Otto and Langen), the very small 
power rating still allowed a low operating cost. A 
“one-manpower” (one-twelfth horsepower) engine consumed only eleven to twelve 
cubic feet of gas per hour. With illuminating gas selling at an average rate 
of $2.50 per 1,000 cubic feet in the major cities, the fuel cost per hour ran 
less than four cents. An engine of this size sold in Paris for about $110 in 
1878.


To be continued,

Jeff
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Jeff Davis
Somewhere 20 miles south of Lake Erie, USA
http://www.velocity.net/~jeff0124