You think we're all not in the Vanguard? Here is the orthodox news
from CNN;
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/ptech/9902/16/newcar.lat/index.html
Wonder if they are reading these discussions?...naw, has to be simply
synchronicity...
---"Jerry W. Decker" wrote:
>
> Hi Folks!
>
> Received this interesting email about the history of who first used
> water in a carburetor and thought it needs to be shared and
> archived...thank you Nandor!;
> =============================
> Hi Jerry!
>
> I would give some additional info on the vapour carb history. It would
> be interesting to know who was the first man injected water to an
> internal combustion engine.
>
> His name is Donát Bánki, he was also the co-inventor of the
carburettor
> in 1893.
>
> He started to work on improving the efficiency of the internal
> combustion engine and invented the water injection as an internal
> cooling (at that time compression was not an easy task to improve
> because of the low octane-rating of the gasoline caused knocking).
>
> He patented the water injection in 1894.
>
> When Diesel invented his engine, Bánki said that the gasoline engines
> will never be competitive to that efficiency so he finished his
research
> on water injection.
>
> I give you a link to the Hungarian Patent Office where is a short page
> about Bánki.
>
> http://www.hpo.hu/English/inventor/ebanki.html
>
> Note that he was also an university teacher and one of his students
was
> Joseph Galamb who we know later as the chief engineer of the legendary
> T-Ford.
>
> Best wishes:
> Nándor Orosz - norosz@icon.hu
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