Then the cycle repeats. There are two basic configurations for a Stirling engine, one is the beta type that we discussed above; the other is the alpha type, shown at the left. The principle of ...

During the Piston Powered Auto-Rama at the I-X Center in Cleveland on Monday, March 31, 2025, NASA Glenn Research Center's ...

In 1816 Robert Stirling invented an engine that operated by heating and cooling air in a closed cycle. The cycle has now been "reversed" in an efficient machine for cooling things to very low ...