Alcohol/naptha-fired burner, for Stringfellow's 1847-8 flying machine

Alcohol/naptha-fired burner, for horizontal single cylinder-slide valve steam engine, by John Stringfellow, Chard, Somerset, England, 1847-1848. John Stringfellow made the burner for a William Henson designed ten-foot wing-span model aircraft.

Details

Category:
Aircraft Propulsion
Object Number:
1908-44/3
Materials:
metal (unknown)
type:
burner
credit:
Heathcoat, J.N.