August - September 2019

Gas Engine Magazine

Where yesterday’s farm engines come to life

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Big Engines
Southwest of Hooker, Oklahoma, a small town nestled high in the Oklahoma panhandle, an old natural gas pumping station sits quietly in an open field. A tall silo on the site is perhaps the first thing you might notice driving by. Shuttered in the 199
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Flywheel Forum
To tell the story of this engine, I have to first explain that my son-inlaw and I have been going to Mount Pleasant, Iowa, for the past seven years for the gas engine show. We would listen to the engines run and talk to the owners about how they foun
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Gas Engine Pioneer: Sir Dugald Clerk
Does the above name ring a bell with you? Of course it does! He’s the gent who invented the Clerk Cycle of engine operation. And who was the major maker of that type of engine in America? Joseph Reid. So now it all comes together for you. But for thi
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Hometown Favorites
Kelly Barnett of Plainfield, Iowa, wasn’t satisfied with collecting just the gas engines once built by Armstrong Mfg. Co., Charles City, Iowa. He also wanted to dig into the little-known company’s history. Kelly, who has Armstrong pieces produced as
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Goes And Goes Right
James Johnson got interested in gas engines when he made the 1,600-mile trip from his home in Chehalis, Washington, to the WMSTR (Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion) show in Rollag, Minnesota in 1980. Now 76, James had been there with his fath
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The Brayton Cycle Engine
Students of gas-powered engines know that Nicolaus Otto (1832- 1891) is credited as the father of the 4-cycle engine that still serves us today, powering just about every kind of motorized machine imaginable. Introduced in 1876 as the Otto Silent eng
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Working Worthingtons
Although modern turbines started to replace large gas engines as power units in natural gas pumping stations decades ago, the legacy of gas engines as motivators in industry continues to express itself. In Flywheel Forum in the February/March 2019 is
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America’s Rural Yesterday transports the reader to another time, when life moved slower and family and community was important. More than 100 photos by famed photographer J.C. Allen show fieldwork, including planting, tilling, harvesting, and more. A

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