HOW DOES IT WORK? – Oil Lamp Fan (Nov, 1956)
Stirling cycle fans have quite the following.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
EARL CROSS doesn’t know what makes his antique rotary fan work—but why argue with a cooling breeze? In the base of tlie fan is an oil lamp which heats a cylinder containing two pistons. Light the lamp and the blades slowly pick up speed. The fans were part of a shipment made up for a long forgotten African hunting expedition.
How much heat is generated by the flame? Using heat, to cool!
A Stirling engine.
You can still get them. Nice idea for the outdoors!
http://www.stirlingfans…
That is definitely a stirling engine of some type.
Here’s a fun modern one (coffee cup powered, not kero.)
http://www.stirlingengi…