Scottish Inventions - Power Innovations

Power Innovations

  • Condensing steam engine improvements: James Watt (1736–1819)
  • Coal-gas lighting: William Murdoch (1754–1839)
  • The Stirling heat engine: Rev. Robert Stirling (1790–1878)
  • Carbon brushes for dynamos: George Forbes (1849–1936)
  • The Clerk cycle gas engine: Sir Dugald Clerk (1854–1932)
  • The wave-powered electricity generator: by South African Engineer Stephen Salter in 1977
  • The Pelamis Wave Energy Converter ("red sea snake" wave energy device): Richard Yemm, 1998

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