The Diesel Odyssey of Clessie Cummins

The Diesel Odyssey of Clessie Cummins
Title The Diesel Odyssey of Clessie Cummins PDF eBook
Author C. Lyle Cummins
Publisher Carnot USA Books
Pages 399
Release 1998
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780917308048

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The Diesel Odyssey of Clessie Cummins

The Diesel Odyssey of Clessie Cummins
Title The Diesel Odyssey of Clessie Cummins PDF eBook
Author C. Lyle Cummins
Publisher
Pages 401
Release 2012
Genre Automobiles
ISBN 9780615590158

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The Diesel Odyssey of Clessie Cummins

The Diesel Odyssey of Clessie Cummins
Title The Diesel Odyssey of Clessie Cummins PDF eBook
Author C. Lyle Cummins Jr.
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2023-08-15
Genre
ISBN 9781642341706

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In this lively historical account of one of America's ingenious entrepreneurs and inventors, the adventurous path of Clessie Cummins is told from his early innovations to the founding of his global brand and company. Best known as the father of the American diesel truck, Cummins's formal schooling ended at the eighth grade. Despite that, he generated thirty-three US patents over fifty-six years. He founded the diesel engine company bearing his name and served as its president for nineteen years. A racer at heart, he set world speed and endurance records in race cars and trucks. The Diesel Odyssey of Clessie Cummins is more than a simple recitation of a pioneering individual's exploits and accomplishments. Told through the eyes of his son, C. Lyle Cummins Jr., it is a tale of success and adversity, woven through a lens of historical research and personal knowledge. Lyle Cummins recounts memories of his father from his own youth and describes how later, as a practicing engineer, he saw other sides of the man who would become his employer, mentor, and colleague. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Society of Automotive Engineers posthumously honored Clessie Cummins for his achievements. A tireless individual, years of grueling effort resulted in declining health. Yet, in his retirement, he created a new product that launched a second industry. For anyone who loves engines, innovation, or early American history, this easy-to-read and engaging book is a must.

Internal Fire

Internal Fire
Title Internal Fire PDF eBook
Author C. Lyle Cummins
Publisher
Pages 368
Release 2021-11
Genre Internal combustion engines
ISBN 9781642340532

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Internal Fire is the captivating history of the internal combustion engine and the creative individuals who brought it to life. From gunpowder to diesel, the development of these early powerhouses has been recorded from all sides. The influences of new technologies, patents, and obtainable fuels, as well as a growing understanding of the very nature of heat itself are all explored. Internal Fire is not intended as a textbook, but as the well-researched and readable chronicle of a mechanical servant that has greatly influenced life in the 20th century and beyond. You will find in this comprehensive book: ■ Gunpowder and Steam ■ Air Engines ■ Thermodynamics: Carnot Charts a Course ■ Patents: Origin and Influence ■ Internal-Combustion Engines: 1791-1813 ■ Searching and Perfecting: 1820-1860 ■ The 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

Banksy

Banksy
Title Banksy PDF eBook
Author Will Ellsworth-Jones
Publisher Aurum
Pages 320
Release 2012-03-01
Genre Art
ISBN 1845138457

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For someone who shuns the limelight so completely that he conceals his name, never shows his face and gives interviews only by email, Banksy is remarkably famous. From his beginnings as a Bristol graffiti artist, his artwork is now sold at auction for six-figure sums and hangs on celebrities’ walls. The appearance of a new Banksy is national news, his documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop was Oscar-nominated and people queue for hours to see his latest exhibition. Now more National Treasure than edgy outsider, who is Banksy and how did he become what he is today? In the first attempt to tell the full story of Banksy’s life and career, Will Ellsworth-Jones pieces together a picture of his world and unpicks its contradictions. Whether art or vandalism, anti-establishment or sell-out, Banksy and his work have become a cultural phenomenon and the question ‘Who is Banksy?’ is as much about his career as it is ‘the man behind the wall’. 'Britain's unlikeliest national treasure' Independent ‘A fascinating portrait that elicits admiration for a man who, despite his increasingly unconvincing efforts to retain some shred of his vandal status, has had an undeniable impact on art’ The Times

Constitution-Maker

Constitution-Maker
Title Constitution-Maker PDF eBook
Author Sir Ivor Jennings
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 305
Release 2014
Genre History
ISBN 110709111X

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The collected documents of Sir Ivor Jennings (1903-65), an influential international advisor on constitutional questions during the era of decolonisation.

Diesels for the First Stealth Weapon

Diesels for the First Stealth Weapon
Title Diesels for the First Stealth Weapon PDF eBook
Author Lyle Cummins
Publisher
Pages 776
Release 2007
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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