Internal Fire!

by Lyle Cummins

It's back. THE definitive book on the history of the internal combustion engine. This was first published in 1976 but has been unavailable for many years. If, and I mean if, you can find a used copy you'll pay significantly more for it than you will for a new copy of this newly reprinted and updated edition.

Chapters include Gunpowder and Steam, Air Engines, Thermodynamics: Carnot Charts a Course, Patents: Origin and Influence, IC engines 1791-1813, Searching and Perfecting 1820-1860, Genesis of an Industry, Otto and Langen, Otto's Four-Stroke Cycle, Brayton and His "Ready Motor", The Two-Stroke Cycle, Gas and Gasoline Engines to 1900, Oil Engines: An Interim Solution, Rudolf Diesel: The End of the Beginning, and more.

This is the story of engines written by probably the country's foremost expert. If you've read Lyle's other books on Diesel and his father, Clessie Cummins, you know what the quality is like here. You'll discover a very readable book loaded with illustrations, detail, and bibliography, covering all the engine types you know about, and scores of others that you never even knew existed.

You'll find info on engines ranging from Cayley's hot-air engine of 1807 and the Barsanti & Matteucci two cylinder atmospheric engine of 1856 to the Day "Three Port" two-stroke engine of 1892 and the Daimler "Twin-Vee" engine of 1889.

This is the classic that I, and Harris, and the Gingerys and Lewis and many others have been urging Lyle Cummins to bring back for years. And finally it's here. With updates and some valuable new material.

If you fancy yourself an engineman, then you must have this. And you must know what's in this book if you want to consider yourself as an expert. We in the book business agree that this is probably the single most important engine book you can have because it puts the whole of engine history in perspective and points out the important inventions. And you get great clues for future research.

Highest recommendation. More expensive than most of the books I like to offer, but worth every penny and then some. Get one. 6x9 hardcover 350+ pages

No. 1519 ...$39.95