flame-enginen. ‘an early name for the gas-engine, in which the piston is moved by the expansion due to the sudden combustion of a body of gas in the cylinder’ (Knight 1874).
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gas engine1820
flame-engine1862
gas turbine1885
1862 Atlantic Monthly July 70/2 Ericsson..soon discovered that his flame-engine, when worked by the combustion of mineral coals, was [etc.]