Steam Engines by Rudy Kouhoupt

Steam engines come in a wide variety of configurations. Each produces a signature motion. Shown here are six different types of steam engines: Beam, Horizontal, 2-Cylinder Marine, 4-Post Vertical, Vertical with Planetary Gearing and a 5-Cylinder Radial configuration. Digital photos of these and many more engines designed by Rudy Kouhoupt can be seen at www.CraftsmanshipMuseum.com/Kouhoupt.htm.
Rudy was a prolific designer of steam engines and has offered plans and instructions for many of these engines in articles in magazines like Popular Mechanics and The Home Shop Machinist. A number of these have been reproduced and are once again available through Village Press in Michigan. See https://secure.villagepress.com/store/items/list/group/280.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Rudy
• Kouhoupt
• Steam
• Engine
• Beam
• Horizontal
• Vertical
• Radial
• Marine

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Was/is radial steam engines really used in full scale? I´d love to see a clip of each in real slow running mode! Great clip this too tho, noce to have them lined up like this!