ABSTRACT
Chapters 10 and 11 discussed essential fuel-engine characteristics of spark-and compression-ignition IC engines. Through the years various attempts have been made to develop unique piston-cylinder prime movers concepts. For example, some nineteenthcentury inventors even tried to apply knowledge from gun manufacturing to IC development. Their efforts attempted to adapt the highly explosive nature of gunpowder ignition to intermittent engine combustion chemistry, an illustration of an early attempt at technology transfer.
