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      Air Car Hall of Fame Compressed Air Power Secrets Contributions    

 

copyright © 2011 Scott Robertson

 

 

PNEUMATIC OPTIONS RESEARCH LIBRARY 2011 CATALOG

Air Car Research Compilations

Contents

 

Air Powered Cars by Terry Miller, Terry Miller’s Air Car One and his Spirit of Joplin, descriptions and photocopies of engine parts, includes 40-minute DVD.  Terry Miller is the only air car inventor who has ever provided a set of plans, and he provided good descriptions for both of his air engine designs.  This is a good place to start if you have mechanical aptitude and want to start designing an air engine that can be built from off-the-shelf parts.  Includes transcriptions of 3 hours of audiotapes by the inventor explaining exactly what the photocopies show and how the engine works.

Item #01-04

 

Air Engines, (3rd edition), Guy Negre’s air car and the Mexico City air powered taxi program, full-expansion air turbine motors, McClure’s circular-path non-reciprocating piston air engine, miscellaneous rotary air motor and engine designs, crankshaft substitutes, non-lubricated cylinder materials, oil-less pneumatics, compound engines, fluid clutches.

Item #14A-04

 

 

The Air Engine that Got Air Engines Covered Up, The most efficient air engine ever built commercially was invented in the U.S. by Charles Hodges, and taken to Europe where an improved design flourished, then eventually was buried alive by World War II.  Here is the whole story of the air powered locomotive that increased its range-between-fillups 60% by absorbing heat from the atmosphere.  These were highly successful commercial air cars; there were 624 three-stage pneumatic locomotives in one coal field in Germany alone.

Item #03-00

 

Self-fueling Air Cars, 33 air engine and air car inventors whose intention and/or claim is to “compress their own air;” articles and patents: Bill Truitt, Bob Neal, George Heaton, Hudspeth & Lunsford, Baruch and Isaac Leibow, Lee Rogers, many more.

Item #04A-00

 

 

The Truth About Air Cars (Volume One), “He of the compressed wind,” lies about air cars, pneumatic railways, compressed air locomotives of Mekarski, Hardie, and Hoadley-Knight.

Item #-05A-00

 

The Truth About Air Cars (Volume Two), Compound compressed air locomotives in the U.S., Canada, and Europe, 1200 horsepower diesel/air hybrid locomotive, air powered race car, Sorogato’s air car, Terry Miller’s air cars.

Item #05B-00

 

 

General Herman Haupt, Air Car Advocate (2nd edition), The greatest air car advocate of the 19th century, General Haupt wrote a whole book comparing the relative advantages of steam, electricity, and compressed air for Street Railway Motors.  The section on air trolleys is reproduced here, along with biographical information on this great civil engineer who worked on pioneering tunnel projects and was in charge of the railroads for the Union army during the Civil War.  Also includes articles on air cars that Haupt published before and after Street Railway Motors.

Item #35-04

 

Early Air Car Patents, 1884-1928, Self-fueling air car patents by Buell, Pittman & Harrison, Harrington, Vernon, and Forman; also a list that came out in 1908 of most compressed air inventions patented up to that point.

Item #04C-00

 

 

Cryogenic Cars, Cars that run on liquified gases.

Item #40-00

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