Internal combustion engines
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Sub-series I.B: Aircraft Engine (Motor) RDT&E
Sub-Series
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Includes RDT&E for commercial, military and general aviation aircraft and aircraft engines (motors). Includes basic aerodynamic and aviation materials research.
Dates:
1911 - 2013
Superchargers for Aviation, 1942
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 088, Book: Catalog Number: TBD
Identifier: 20180017
Abstract
An Illuminating, Authoritative Text by the Inventor of the Supercharger (Dr. Sanford A. Moss, Ph.D.)(back cover). Foreword: Supercharging has such an important place with the modern internal combustion engine that the publication of the present book seems most timely. The material originally appeared in the weekly numbers of the aviation publication Aeronautics, issued under the auspices of the present publishers in 1941, but the author has considerably revised and extended this matter for...
Dates:
Publication: 1942
The Airplane Engine (First Edition, Second Impression), 1922
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 079, Book: Catalog Number: TBD
Identifier: 20180007
Abstract
PREFACE This volume attempts two things: to formulate existing knowledge of the functioning of the airplane engine and its auxiliaries; and to present and discuss the essential constructive details of those engines whose excellence has resulted in their survival. The material here collected is largely new; very little of it could have been written before the war and only a small fraction was available for publication before 1919. It is based mainly on the researches and engine developments...
Dates:
Publication: 1922