Who invented this type of Stirling Engine?
Some history: In 1983 Ivo Kolin, a professor at the University of Zagreb in what was then Yugoslavia, demonstrated the first Stirling engine that would run on small temperature differences. After he published what he had done, Dr. James Senft, a Mathematics professor at the University of Wisconsin River Falls built the first engines similar to the MM-1. The model MM-1 would not have been possible without the work of these two people. The concept for the MM-1 came from the innovative mind of Darryl Phillips. All the detail design and engineering work for the MM-1 was done by Brent H.Van Arsdell president of American Stirling Company. • Q: The world has thousands of low temperature difference heat sources why don’t you build a full power engine that uses them? A: Stirling engines that run on small temperature differences tend to be very large for the amount of power they put out. While we clearly could build engines that produce power and ran on small temperature differences, here’s why
