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      Air Car Hall of Fame Compressed Air Power Secrets Contributions    

 

copyright © 2011 Scott Robertson

 

 

PNEUMATIC OPTIONS RESEARCH LIBRARY 2011 CATALOG

Original Works by Pneumatic Options

Contents

 

Air Car Hall of Fame, volume one of an encyclopedia about compressed air inventors as people, what started out as hero worship--like when I used to go to the library as a kid to look up articles in magazines about my favorite rock stars to find out what they were really like as people--turned into a whole new direction for my research.  Not only does this newest of all air car books present new technical information that has been lost for many years, it puts flesh on the bones of inventors of self-fueling air cars and engines, self-filling air tanks, and the like.  Once they were just names on a patent; now they are real people with families, careers, and personal histories.  This is so you can judge for yourself what kind of people try to revolutionize all of industry with one invention.  There are some real surprises in this book!  Exhaustive and expensive research is ongoing to learn the facts about these inventors and dozens more who will be covered in subsequent volumes.

Item #56-11

 

Compressed Air Power Secrets: Pneumatics for Inventors (3rd edition), what started out many years ago as a 12-page stab in the dark is now a 374-page magnum opus on the calculations and theory of compressed air as an energy carrier.  Includes the equations for various modes of air compression and air motors and engines.  Special emphasis is on pressure equalization as an alternate way to compress air, with mathematical and theoretical proof.  All math is simple algebra, and every step is explicitly laid out.  This book is written especially for the unpedigreed non-engineers who populate the ranks of the deeply interested: people who want to design and build air cars and have the intelligence to go ahead and try it.

Item #02-09

 

Homemade Air Engines that Work, Documentation including detailed drawings: (1) Torquerack One, prototype for an air engine that puts out almost twice the torque it would put out if it used a crankshaft, by replacing the crankshaft with gears; (2) The Littlefoot Engine, a two-stage compressor converted into a two-stage air engine.  A DVD is also available showing both engines in operation, including 40 minutes on Terry Miller's air car, engine, and air station.

Item #14B-00

 

 

Air Car Design Manual (second edition), Compressed air is solar energy, air engine theory, the most efficient air engines ever commercially built, air engine valves, vehicle power requirements, hybrid and closed-cycle pneumatic power plants, extending range, technical press.

Item #28-00

 

from U. S. Patent No. 868,560, Interheater for Compound Compressed-Air Engines, Patented October 15, 1907, by Charles Bowen Hodges of Pittsburgh, Pennsyvania

"An electric motor is an inefficient machine while coming up to normal speed; a steam engine is inefficient until the walls of the cylinders are thoroughly heated; but a compressed air engine is most efficient, thermodynamically, with the first movement of the piston, because the walls of the cylinders are then at their highest temperature. This fact would point to the use of compressed air locomotives wherever stops and starts are to occur with great frequency."

 

 

The Magic Valve, Bob Neal’s means for putting low pressure air into a high pressure tank, patented in 1936, Interview with air car inventor George Heaton, check valves and waves, interview with Bob Neal’s son, wave compounding by reflection in closed-end tubes, Neal patent file.

Item #07B-00

 

 

Maxwell’s Demon Gets a Job (3rd edition), The answer to James Clerk Maxwell’s famous riddle about self-fueling air engines and the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, with the cloak of physics jargon removed by our discovery that the Bernoulli Effect qualifies as the solution to the eminent scientist Maxwell’s profound riddle.

Item #07A-00

 

 

Air Car Basics, 1981, Air cars compared with eight other alternatives, my first essay on air cars.  I still stand behind the simplistic approach taken here, which can be argued against by any unfathomable multi-million dollar study but can't be denied by common sense and looking at the big picture.  Lawrence Livermore Labs once published a study asserting that only one compressed air car had ever been built!  Maybe written by a scientist who had eaten the wrong kind of mushroom!

Item #42-00

 

Radial Pulsation Compressor, Concept for a high-volume low-pressure compressor/pulsation generator that could be used in a resonant circuit such as patented by Bob Neal and by the Leibows; booklet with 11 x 17 foldouts of the drawings and background info on the parts comprising a radial airplane engine, upon which this concept is based.  Simple non-lube design using a bolt-together concept instead of block castings.  Don't try to build this exact machine, it's just a drawing.  It would be better to get an old radial airplane engine and rebuild it, then convert it to an air compressor.

Item #32-01

 

 

Tables of Contents for Library Items, Details on all the books I offered in the 20th century.

Item #48-00

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