Table of Contents

Air engines; the Stirling engine; later single cylinder engines; Philips engines; "modern knowledge" ... and all that; reassessment; post-revival; the "regenerator problem"; two decades of optimism; thermodynamic design; completing the picture; by intuition, or by design?; ...and the heyday to come; in praise of Robert Stirling; appendix - literary output of Theodor Finkelstein.