Stirling Engine Miniature Model Steam Power Generation Technology Toy

    Stirling engines are one of the simplest engines to construct and understand, andthere are still a lot of thermodynamic concepts that come up and are easy to understand in context.  The engine is not an internal combustion engine, so it relies on an external heat source.  The kit comes with a small alcohol lamp you may use to power the engine with alcohol from the first-aid kit.  You may also try placing the engine over other heat sources around the house ir in the outdoors to create (for example) a solar powered stirling engine with a magnifying glass and convex mirror (not included). You can build either a single cylinder engine, or a double cylinder engine. Before you build the experiment, come up with some hypothesis and test them to make it more fun.  Here are some questions to explore - make your guesses, today!  Sample questions to hypothesize about for the project: When you run the 2 cylinder motor, does it run at twice the speed, turn twice the generators, or have twic