{"id":79,"date":"2004-06-11T00:16:22","date_gmt":"2004-06-10T14:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=79"},"modified":"2007-02-07T20:05:48","modified_gmt":"2007-02-07T10:05:48","slug":"lego-steam-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"Lego steam engine!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now this is something I didn&#8217;t expect to see &#8211; I&#8217;ve seen various kinds of machines built with lego, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dansworkshop.com\/Lego%20Steam%20Engines.shtml\">a working steam engine made from lego<\/a> is a new one on me &#8211; I&#8217;m impressed at this guy&#8217;s creativity, and what&#8217;s more, it appears to work.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dansworkshop.com\/Lego%20Steam%20Engines.shtml\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dansworkshop.com\/00-index\/20-Lego%20Steam%20Engines\/20-Double%20acting%20twin%20cylinder\/30-Engine%20animation.gif\"\/><br \/>This is an animation of Daniel Hartman&#8217;s double-acting twin cylinder engine<\/a> The whole site is worth a close look \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>cheers<br \/>Jerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now this is something I didn&#8217;t expect to see &#8211; I&#8217;ve seen various kinds of machines built with lego, but a working steam engine made from lego is a new one on me &#8211; I&#8217;m impressed at this guy&#8217;s creativity, and what&#8217;s more, it appears to work. Daniel Hartman has various versions of the engine, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-steam","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}