"Jim Wilkins" wrote in message
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"pyotr filipivich" wrote in message

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Evans

-jsw

To show how innovative and far ahead of his time Evans was, he
experimented with pressurizing the firebox and injecting water
directly into the flame to flash into steam, in effect the burner of a
jet engine. He demonstrated that high pressure combustion was
possible, and also that a continuous supercharged air and fuel flow
was hopelessly impossible with the low tech of the time.
-jsw