drinking bird

The drinking bird is a heat engine that works at room temperature.

Drinking bird - a toy that works on similar principles.

Like all heat engines, the drinking bird works through a thermodynamic cycle.

The drinking bird has been used in many fictional contexts to automatically press buttons.

A common toy that is also a heat engine is a drinking bird.

Despite the drinking bird's appearance and classification as a toy, some safety considerations apply.

They are described as witches who, having made pacts with dark entities gained the ability to become blood drinking birds at night.

An example of a DCM heat engine is the drinking bird.

The drinking bird toy functions using small ambient temperature gradients and evaporation.

A drinking bird consists of two glass bulbs joined by a glass tube (the bird's neck).

A 'dunking bird of the second kind' was introduced, which, while similar to the original drinking bird, will operate without a temperature difference.

Images and words were occasionally projected, from "deep end" and "shallow" to clouds and a drinking bird.

A rapt fellatrice, "repetitively nodding like one of those drinking birds fitted to the edge of a water glass".

Local birdwatchers say that allowing saltwater flow into northern Turtle Cove is chasing away freshwater drinking birds.

The drinking bird is an interesting exhibition of several physical laws and is therefore a staple of basic chemistry and physics education.

Vapor to liquid cycle (Drinking bird, Injector, Minto wheel)

Isopropanol has a higher boiling-point / lower vapor-pressure than ethanol, methanol, or acetone so it might not work well in a "drinking bird" thermal apparatus.

Looking for shortcuts, he leaves his terminal, with a drinking bird to press the Y key to indicate "yes" on the keyboard and goes out to see a film.

Then, kneeling on the bathroom floor, John would bend forward again like one of those novelty drinking birds and stick his flaming head back into the water-filled bathtub.

Drinking birds, also known as insatiable birdie, and dipping birds, are toy heat engines that mimic the motions of a bird drinking from a water source.

The drinking bird is a heat engine that exploits a temperature differential to convert heat energy to a pressure differential within the device, and perform mechanical work.

More recently in the game Quantum Conundrum (2012), one of the main gameplay mechanics is a drinking bird that is used as a timer to press buttons.

A Chinese drinking bird toy dating back to 1910s 1930s named insatiable birdie is described in Yakov Perelman's Physics for Entertainment.

Drinking birds have been featured as plot elements in the 1951 Merrie Melodies cartoon Putty Tat Trouble and the 1968 science fiction thriller The Power.

Returning home, he finds that, in his absence, the nodding drinking bird fell over and that a nuclear meltdown is about to take place at the plant unless the system is manually shut down.