It was 1816 when Scottish minister Robert Stirling drew up his designs for a heat exchange engine, and another 200 years before its full potential could be realised. Phillip Hills explains the technology and its development, from its early use in pumping water out a quarry in Kilmarnock, through long periods of obscurity, to offering an environmentally friendly source of warmth and a means to generate electricity during space travel.
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