Microscopic engines

Jul 07, 2003 4 Replies
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I was watching Richard & Judy on CH4 at 17.15 tonight. A chap was showing a new microscopic I/C engine a 1/4 the size of a penny. He said that they were nearly at the point where a wristwatch could be powered by lighter fluid. I missed his name but a Google search on microscopic engines brought out quite a bit on the subject. see

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one is a wankel engine but the one on R&J was a single cylinder piston engine. Sounds easier to carry than a Lister L.



-- Dave Croft Warrington England

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Nanobot Technology.

They are also working on small robots that will be injected into the body to carry out operations and medical procedures from the inside.

Lionel

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Some years ago, our Eastern cousins managed to put a working steam engine on an IC chip. Can't remember the details, but it was shown working on a TV. May have been Tomorrows World.

John

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Sorry to post again, but micro-engineering is now making this sort of stuff.

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are developing micro machines at work. It's not my field, but I will try and post some details. Just to give you a taste, the laser department is pulsing a laser beam. Now I always thought that they just turned the laser on & off quickly. They do that, but very quickly, like in Pico seconds. The length of the light beam is measured in sub millimetre lengths. That is a beam of light which is less than 1mm from front to back.

John

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