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Aug 17, 1870 153 years old
British mechanical engineer and inventor
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About William Joseph Still
- William Joseph Still was an English engineer.
- He was born at Reigate on 17 August 1870.
- In 1884, he went to Canada to work for a firm of electric vehicle manufacturers.
- In 1894, he returned to England, where he invented a double-acting diesel-steam engine in which waste heat from the cylinder jacket and the exhaust was used to produce steam to assist the diesel engine.
- This is covered by U.S.
- patent 1230617 of 1917.
- Still also invented the Still heat-transmitting tube which was used in refrigeration plant.
