Several companies and developers have begun touting new uses for an engine first developed in 1816 by a Scottish clergyman named Robert Stirling. Although Stirling's engine was initially developed ...

Two researchers from the University of Stuttgart and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Valentin Blickle and Clemens Bechinger, successfully shrank the Stirling heat engine down to ...

The latest is a hybrid electric scooter that uses a Stirling engine to partially recharge its battery pack. Kamen has already used a Stirling engine–technology that that was invented in 1816 ...