Lego steam engine!
Now this is something I didn’t expect to see – I’ve seen various kinds of machines built with lego, but a working steam engine made from lego is a new one on me – I’m impressed at this guy’s creativity, and what’s more, it appears to work.
Daniel Hartman has various versions of the engine, including single and double cylinder versions, and single and double acting. They use square pistons and seem to run quite well on compressed air or with a vacuum cleaner. It seems a great way to demonstrate the basics of steam engines.
This is an animation of Daniel Hartman’s double-acting twin cylinder engine The whole site is worth a close look 🙂
cheers
Jerry
Comment by Simon Chaddock
Hi
Yes Dan Hartman’s Lego steam engine is really neat but some of us have been doing this sort of thing for quite some time (20 years!). My latest design is a big twin cylinder slide valve engine. You can down load an avi of it running from http://www.pkl.net/~rsc/downloads/LegoEngine.avi
Using vucuum cleaner power you can’t actually stop the the shaft with your fingers.
I think a working beam engine would also make a good Lego model. We shall see.
cheers
Simon
Posted on February 27, 2007 at 10:49 am
Comment by jerry
This is a great model 🙂 I look forward to seeing the beam engined too!
Thanks for sending this
Cheers
Jerry
Posted on February 28, 2007 at 8:16 am