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Herbert Akroyd Stuart (1864–1927) – Inventor of the hot bulb heavy oil engine. Herbert Akroyd-Stuart (28 January 1864 – 19 February 1927) was an English inventor who is noted for his invention of the hot bulb engine, or heavy oil engine.
1893 Hornsby–Akroyd oil engine at the museum of Lincolnshire life, Lincoln, England 14 hp Hornsby–Akroyd oil engine at the Great Dorset Steam Fair in 2008. The Hornsby–Akroyd oil engine, named after its inventor Herbert Akroyd Stuart and the manufacturer Richard Hornsby & Sons, was the first successful design of an internal combustion engine using heavy oil as a fuel.
The concept of this engine was established by Herbert Akroyd Stuart, an English inventor.The first prototypes were built in 1886 and production started in 1891 by Richard Hornsby & Sons of Grantham, Lincolnshire, England under the title Hornsby Akroyd Patent Oil Engine under licence.
Work with Herbert Akroyd Stuart in the 1890s led to the world's first commercial heavy oil engines being made in Grantham (from 8 July 1892). Other engineering companies had been offered the option of manufacturing the engine, but they saw it as a threat to their business, and so declined the offer.
1891: The Hornsby–Akroyd oil engine – often considered a predecessor to the diesel engine – begins production. The engine was designed by English inventor Herbert Akroyd Stuart. 1892: The essay Theory and Construction of a Rational Heat Motor is written by German engineer Rudolf Diesel.
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