external combustion engine in a sentence

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1. Like the steam engine, the Stirling engine is traditionally classified as an external combustion engine, as all heat transfers to and from the working fluid take place through a solid boundary ( heat exchanger ) thus isolating the combustion process and any contaminants it may produce from the working parts of the engine.
2. The next day several newspapers, including the Globe and the London Independent, had turned up a patent application that looked as though it might be Ginger : a six-wheeled scooter with an unspecified power source _ perhaps a Stirling engine, a discarded technology on which Kamen was known to be working, a very efficient version of the external combustion engine that had powered the Stanley Steamer.