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Current projects:
air car forum
Air Car Access and Pneumatic Options Research Library forum are happy to announce...a friendly place for compressed air researchers and inventors to come together for shop talk, design critiques, and just plain passing the gas around.
my most popular book
Compressed Air Power Secrets, 3rd Edition A technical book for people who hate technical books. All you have to know is a little (very little) simple algebra in order to ingest this whole 374-page book. It will make you smarter than me if you aren't already. After 29 years of studying compressed air I still didn't understand the math so I studied several compressed air textbooks to find out what I didn't know. I forced myself to come to an understanding of everything I read and analyzed the reasons why it was so hard to figure out, and all the details of this quest, within reason, are included in the book. This is the book you need in order to teach yourself how air works and what the calculations mean. One man liked this book so much he gave me $900 for it!
my newest book
Air Car Hall of Fame, volume 1...the birth of an encyclopedia! Revealing personal information about air car inventors of the past, most of it unknown till now. This project was undertaken so that we could get an inkling of what these inventors were like as people, and what else they did besides think up a self-filling air tank, free range air car, barn-sized compressor that runs by itself, car that runs on the wind it makes by passing through the atmosphere, or other pneumatic machine that others naturally assume should be impossible. In the process of researching this book, dozens of inventors were discovered whose work had been lost. Future volumes will include all of these inventors. Read the whole thing, 'cause the fun never ends and some of the best stuff is in the last chapter!
Pages linked from home page:
online store
Beyond reading this website there is a LOT more information to download, free & almost free. Currently I am charging $11 for a few books that are worth ten times that much, but most books are only a few dollars or free.
historical air cars
Another chapter of history that never made it into the official version of "history": real air cars!
if you're an airhead too, select Door Number 1
This has been my personal research dissemination project since 1979. Beware of cheap imitations, which can be identified easily since they are cautious enough to not copy my jokes. To get your two cents in, join the forum.
descriptions of downloadable materials
Free, cheap, and sorta cheap, all are described on these pages (in the next six sub-categories to follow) and download or pay links are provided.
older compressed air textbooks
Older textbooks spelled it out more clearly than modern ones. Here are the classics, and more are available.
books I wrote
Book projects have kept me going since I was 11 years old. My theory about Big Publishing is that they don't need me and I don't need them.
compilations
Large compilations of my research findings on specific topics such as "free-range" air cars, "hybrid" air cars, etc.
acoustic power
Doing work with sound waves; the air is the main moving part. The picture at right shows an oscillatory torque converter invented by George Constantinesco, who had many patents on acoustic power. Acoustic power is also routinely used to supercharge racing motorcycles without a supercharger.
Terry Miller pictures
Download links for better resolution pictures from Terry Miller's plans. This is the best quality available, though still from photocopies. All are free.
Neal tank
An air tank is full of energy, why fight it? Just use the energy in the tank to put more air into the tank, instead of fighting against the existing pressure in the tank.
Compressed air is solar energy
Proof from textbooks that the work of compression is all lost as heat, leaving the heat of the sun as the only source of energy in most of the compressed air used for everyday applications.
Resonance
Many people believe that resonance is the working principle behind Bob Neal's self-filling air tank.
Gas Buggies
by Frank Beck
For over a year, cartoonist Frank Beck devoted Gas Buggies—a daily cartoon strip syndicated to newspapers across the U.S—to the notion of a free range air car.
Tank injector
For a long time people thought this was Neal's idea because it was first published on my Neal Tank web page. Some people still think Neal's tank worked this way, and maybe they're right.
General Herman Haupt, C.E.
The world's first air car advocate, General Herman Haupt ran the railroads for President Lincoln during the Civil War.
Goofy's air car.
Goofy takes Mickey Mouse for a ride in his new free range air car. Published by Walt Disney on Halloween 1937.
Honda air engine.
This air engine was designed and built by engineer Paul Trentham (right) who helped with Terry Miller's project. The engine was later given to the University of Washington for their cryogenic (liquid nitrogen) car. I owned it long enough to take pictures, then gave it away. A simple conversion of a motorcycle engine using a rotary valve.
My other website.
The fine gentleman pictured to the right was and is an award-winning designer of racing motorcycles. He came to my house dressed all in black (1981) and told me the government would NEVER let me build or sell air cars. He's still making motorcycle parts, and I'm still thinking about building air cars (2013). Just google "Mr. Spooky" "Air cars" "compressed air" "people love air cars."
My political beliefs.
Neither republikrats, nor demopublicans, nor libertarianists, nor liberabbles, nor conserva-thieves, nor pushers of one-god religions...will keep me from making up my own mind and changing it as often as I want. I am inventing a new political party called the Abundance Party, which is based on the notion that money is just a toy, so everyone should get to play with it. Basic essentials including education, housing, medicine, and food would make useful people more useful and useless people less annoying. Can you imagine a society where air cars should run for free but only for you? If so, then you don't get the point!