Bailey Craftsman Supply markets a Test Tube Stirling engine as well as literature, video tapes, parts, machinery, and tools related to home shop machining . They have a good selection related to Stirling engines in addition to other projects.

Koichi Hirata has an excellant webpage with many photos and links to Stirling engine sites around the world.

Ecoboy-SCM81 has a description, including photos, of a 100 W engine, designed and built in Japan, which is presently undergoing test and evaluation.

Magic Motor Company manufactures and markets very nice low delta T models. This web page also has good information about Stirling engines in general.

The Little Engine Pages is a very informative webpage with machine shop, math, and other mechanical gizmos besides Stirling.

Bob Sier has an excellant webpage including historic as well as current Stirling information.

The Stirling Engine Society is an international group of active Stirling collectors and builders.  A very informative journal is published quarterly.

Dustin Symanski shows some of the original work he and his father are doing

Stirling Engines: The Green Machines is a very informative web page with descriptions of Stirling technology (engines, refrigerators, books, web pages, history, etc.) and many references.

Techeast 98 poster session paper  was presented at NASA's  Techeast  Conference held at the Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts on November 3-5, 1998.

References

Organ, A. J. (1992) Thermodynamics and Gas Dynamics of the Stirling Cycle Machine, Cambridge University Press

Reader, G. T. and Hooper, C. (1983) Stirling Engines, E. & F. N. Spon

Urieli, I. and Berchowitz, D. M. (1984) Stirling Cycle Engine Analysis, Adam Hilger Ltd.

Walker, G. (1973) Stirling-Cycle Machines, Oxford University Press

West, C. D. (1986) Principles and Applications or Stirling Engines, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, Inc.

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