At the end of the invention is a nozzle where all the air is released. How it works is that the two handles coming together and expand. This action creates and stores are in the expandable bag. This function is very similar to the human lungs. When you breathe in, You lungs fill with air.
When you exhale, you release all of the air that was stored in your lungs. Similar to this machine. When you push the handles together, it releases the stored air in the expandable bag out of the nozzle. They were used for creating fireplaces due to the lack of fire creation methods.
After came an innovative blowing machine that was constructed by the use of water. This was invented by a man named John Smeaton.
He was an engineer that created the water-air compressor in This innovative machine has since created a foundation for all of the air compressors that we have to date. In , there was an engineer from Austria that had created the very first Compressor Plan in Europe. As people began melting metals such as gold, copper and tin, higher temperatures and a more powerful source of air was needed. Here began the evolution of the air compressor, starting with the use of wind and blowpipes by Egyptian and Sumerian metallurgists.
This was followed by the invention of the first mechanical compressor — the hand-operated bellows — and then the more efficient foot bellows in B.
This device, a flexible bag whose volume could be changed by compression or expansion, produced a concentrated blast of air ideal for achieving higher temperature fires. Fast forward to when John Smeaton, the first professional engineer, designed a water wheel-driven blowing cylinder that slowly replaced the bellows.
Later, in , an English inventor by the name of John Wilkinson introduced a more efficient blasting machine that could produce high amounts of air pressure — which became an early prototype for all mechanical compressors.
Over the years these prototypes improved and evolved, and in the first compound air compressor, a device that compressed air in successive cylinders, was patented. The tunnel began with workers drilling by hand, clearing 9 inches a day. But in , four years after the project began, compressed air was introduced to the compressed-air drills, and the project was then completed in just 14 years — twice as fast as expected.
Meanwhile, the Second Industrial Revolution was taking place and the United States was under a transformation. Fueled by advancements in the creation of steel, chemicals and electricity, factories began to take over and cities began to grow with the assistance of compressed air. Consumer and industrial goods that once had to be completed by hand now utilized stationary machines in factories and could be produced in mass quantities.
During the turn of the century, portable compressors on wheels were introduced and by most commonly had one large, single-stage compression cylinder driven horizontally by a steam or oil engine. Portable compressor development was quickly stimulated by the invention of the lightweight air drill which would aid in the development of city skyscrapers and suburban communities.
The earliest recorded air compressors are the human lungs. The oxygen we exhale can take out small fires and help in small, marginal tasks. With that concept in mind, the Bellows air compressor was invented in B. As seen above, it was a hand-held device that provided a concentrated blast of air. In , engineer John Smeaton designed the first water wheel-driven blowing cylinder that would go on to replace the Bellows. After the water-wheel, the blasting machine invented by John Wilkinson in became the go-to industrial air compressor.
The blasting machine would actually go on to become the archetype for future mechanical air compressors.
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