History of the internal combustion engine

Conference · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1989

OSTI ID:5479093

Somerscales, E F.C. ^[1]; Zagotta, A A ^[2]

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1. Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, NY (United States)
2. Sealed Power Corp., Muskegon, MI (US)

The study of engineering history by the practioners of engineering is not well-developed. This is unfortunate, because if nothing else, it is the culture of our profession, but even more importantly, it provides us with a proper understanding of current and future engineering. Without an adequate historical background the engineer could, for example, respond incorrectly to problems that might arise in some device or make inappropriate changes in the design. History can also suggest the path that might be followed by a new product, and thereby guide the development and marketing. Because of the fuller appreciation of the art and science of engineering that is provided by an awareness of engineering history, it seems appropriate for the ASME to recognize the role in our profession. The papers in this volume, which deal and various aspects of the history of the internal combustion engine, were presented in a session at the Fall Technical Conference of the ASME Internal Combustion Engine Division held in Dearborn, Michigan on October 17, 1989. The session was jointly sponsored and arranged by the Internal Combustion Engine Division and by the History and Heritage Committee of ASME. It is the first in what the latter hopes will be a regular series of sessions at various Society meetings jointly sponsored with the different divisions of the Society. It is hoped in this way to raise the consciousness of the engineering community to its history and to encourage in particular the preparation of historical papers by engineer-historians, who are involved in the practice of engineering. An approximate chronological order has been chosen for the arrangement of the papers, with the first, by H.O. Hardenberg, being on the gunpowder engines, which were experimented with from the sixteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century.

• OSTI ID: 5479093
• Report Number(s): CONF-8910547-; ISBN: 0-7918-0375-9
• Resource Relation: Conference: 11. annual fall technical conference of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Internal Combustion Engine Division, Dearborn, MI (United States), 15-18 Oct 1989
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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