Talk:Corliss steam engine
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[edit] Plenum?
A recent adjustment to the lead introduced the term 'plenum'. This needs further explanation, especially as plenum is a disambiguation page and doesn't include an obvious onward link. Does this indicate a missing article?
EdJogg (talk) 09:33, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
- Plenum is a fine term, of particular relevance (in just the same context) to supercharging and hovercraft too. However there's not a good article on it as yet. Maybe I'll do one soonish. Andy Dingley (talk) 09:58, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
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- Thank you (for both this and 'Valving' responses). Having worked on a number of steam locomotive Featured Article Candidate articles, I have started to become more sensitive to technical jargon, and the need for ensuring meanings are clear to non-technical readers. Ocasionally this process reveals missing articles!
- EdJogg (talk) 10:29, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Valving
Valving is another good term, although it's not generally used in exactly the sense it's used here. It originates with pipe-organ building, where it was the complicated adjustment of the many valves as part of setting up the final behaviour of the keyboard. In steam engines it's more the process of designing or adjust the valve timing (i.e. design of the valvegear) more than the provision of the valves themselves. For internal combustion engines, where valve and port design is even more crucial, the term used (for the ports, not the valvegear timing) is porting. Andy Dingley (talk) 09:58, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
