{"id":31,"date":"2010-12-06T22:40:17","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T03:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dieselrc.com\/blog\/?p=31"},"modified":"2010-12-06T22:40:17","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T03:40:17","slug":"books-for-engine-fanatics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dieselrc.com\/blog\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Books for Engine Fanatics"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t read many books in the past. I gathered most of my information about engines from magazines and internet sources. This was OK until I ran out of depth in the material. There is plenty to read, but pretty soon it’s all the same. Books go much deeper and I found that I enjoy reading about the men who created these machines. Aviation engines interest me the most, but I won’t skip any engine book. I have some technical books that are very in depth in engine theory and design. These are not very entertaining unless designing an engine. Recently, I’ve found a few biographies that caught my interest. The first was “Fedden – the life of Sir Roy Fedden<\/a>“, about the man who designed the great piston engines of\u00a0 the Bristol Aeroplane Company. I’m now reading\u00a0 “The Ricardo Story<\/a>” about Sir Harry Ricardo whose research brought major changes in engine design. I also have “Not Much of an Engineer<\/a>” about Sir Stanley Hooker who had major roles at Rolls Royce and Bristol. An overview of piston aircraft engine designs “”Development of Piston Aero Engines<\/a>” by Bill Gunston is an excellent reference with many photographs and drawings. On my list to get are “Memories and Machines: the Pattern of My Life<\/a>” and “The High-Speed Internal Combustion Engine<\/a>” by Sir Harry Ricardo. These are collectible, so they are quite expensive. These books give a wonderful history of engine development and the people behind the work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I didn’t read many books in the past. I gathered most of my information about engines from magazines and internet sources. This was OK until I ran out of depth in the material. There is plenty to read, but pretty soon it’s all the same. Books go much deeper and I found that I enjoy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90052,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dieselrc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dieselrc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dieselrc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dieselrc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/90052"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dieselrc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dieselrc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.dieselrc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dieselrc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dieselrc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dieselrc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}