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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
One of the first air car patents.
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
