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How Your Hobby Started (Part 2)

By Carlton M. Mull

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In the first installment about the origination of your hobby, it was stated that man's imagination lead to experiments and inventions of the internal combustion engine; and how Thomas Newcomer's improved steam engine replaced horses to operate the mine pumps in collieries of England. Also how James Watt further perfected the open end vertical steam cylinder.

Along in the early part of the nineteenth century, there were many inventors working on the idea of producing an engine that would not require a cumbersome boiler. They employed a cylinder and piston in these experimental engines, but compression and ignition had not been accomplished. The system that carried over from the steam engines using atmosphere and vacuum to move the piston in the cylinder did not work and they could not overcome the difficulty o...

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