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OTHER WEBSITES FOR AIR CAR RESEARCHERS
make an air motor from a two-cycle gas engine
Robotguy's
Model Air Engine Photos!
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Mike
Smyth has lots of beautiful photos of an air engine he built using
simple processes. If you want to start with small engine
prototypes, Mike is doing more with less, and the photos clearly show
every part of his engine.
RexResearch.com
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REX RESEARCH (TM) was established in 1982 by Robert
A. Nelson to archive and distribute hard-to-find information about
"unconventional", suppressed, dormant, or emerging sciences,
technologies, inventions, theories and therapies that offer real hope
of liberating humanity.
http://www.cruiserart.com/
Guy
Negre and MDI
Tsu-Chin
Tsao
Terry
Miller
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http://angelfire.com/theforce/ofcompressedair is a site on the air car inventor
Terry Miller, in the form of entertaining stories told about my experiences with Terry Miller, the
air car advocate and inventor who taught that engines can be made by
anyone, and that even inventors can share their knowledge for the good
of all. Terry Miller did not take his secrets to his grave.
Cryogenic
Cars
Energine
Compressed
Air Locomotives, Pneumatic Railways, Atmospheric Railways
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http://www.lotysz.webd.pl
Dr. Lotysz' website, “Almost Untold” on the history of technology is
very interesting and he has a paper on the Pneumatic Railway complete
with animations. He is an authority on the pneumatic railways
attempted in the 19th century.
Steam Engine Museum in Frankfurt,
Germany Frankfurter Feldbahnmuseum e.V houses dozens of steam
engines and one compressed air locomotive. For more information,
click on the above link to their website, or go to our Pneumatic
Options museums page for photos of their air locomotive.
http://davros.org/rail/atmospheric.html is an article by
Mark Brader on the pneumatic railway: compressed air locomotive
without an engine, powered by air pressure supplied along the way by a
continuous pipeline. There was also the atmospheric railway:
subway tunnels in which the lightweight engine-less car fit the tunnel
and was pushed along by low pressure air or pulled by suction.
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http://aeromovel.com is the official website of the
Aeromovel Global Corp., a revived version of the pneumatic railway of
the 1800s. This one was patented in the 1980s, and is alive and
well in Brazil and Indonesia, where it has been in operation for some
years. Invented by Oskar H. W. Coester, an aviation
engineer.
This is no
joke: Air Powered Lego Engines and Cars
Air Cars
in General
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http://tcsn.net/charlied
was a freeware site of programs
that aid in the visualization and design of valve gear for expansion
engines. Author Charles Dockstader has provided his analysis of
the Stephenson, Joy, Waelschaert, Corliss, and many other types of
valve mechanisms for steam engines or air engines. These devices
or modern improvements, preferably rotary, are of great importance to the efficient use of compressed air in a
piston engine. What they enable is a thing called variable
expansion. When the car is cruising along, the use of air goes
down. When you need to burn rubber uphill, just adjust the
expansion ratio and you can move mountains. Use the engine in
reverse as a compressor? With the right valve gear it's no
problem. Your local steam
engine club is another good source for basic information on such
questions as, What is an eccentric (as opposed to a
crankshaft)? THIS WEBSITE HAS DISAPPEARED, BUT I CONSIDER
THE INFORMATION IT CONTAINED TO BE IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO PRESERVE.
IF YOU CAN'T FIND THESE FILES ONLINE, I WILL LOOK FOR MY COPY AND
EMAIL THEM TO YOU.
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http://howstuffworks.com/question133.htm is a general
discussion of some basic air car concepts.
Patents
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Popular sites like
http://google.com/patents
are much easier to use than search engines on government sites.
For example, if you want patents by Elmer Demetrius Fudd, search by
all these terms: "Elmer Fudd", "E D Fudd", "Elmer D Fudd", "E Fudd",
and "Elmer Demetrius Fudd".
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For European patents,
go to http://ep.espacenet.com.
Images of most patents are available.
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For Canadian
patents, go to
http://brevets-patents.ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/search/basic.html. Older
patents can be ordered by phone, paid for by credit card, in either
photocopy or CD format.
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http://uspto.gov/patft is the U.S. Patent Office's site for
doing patent searches. Once you find an air car patent, copy
down the other patent numbers referenced and search for those patent
numbers. There are hundreds if not thousands of patents relating
to air cars. Software can be downloaded easily for viewing
images of patents, following links found on the Patent Office
site.
The search engine is
not easy to use. You can't search by inventor's name. But
if you want the best images, as single pages in .tif format, this is
the place.
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