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[A three-horsepower internal combustion engine that ran on coal gas] – Vintage Print

[A three-horsepower internal combustion engine that ran on coal gas], [1896] — historic print
[A three-horsepower internal combustion engine that ran on coal gas], [1896]. Historic print from the Horses collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Rated at three horsepower, the engine in this 1896 book illustration reflects how engineers still measured new machines by the horses they could replace. The drawing appeared in Dugald Clerk's *The Gas and Oil Engine*, published in New York that year, and it shows a type of engine associated with Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir, the Belgian-born engineer who built early working engines fueled by coal gas around 1860. Those engines were an early step toward the internal combustion engine, and Clerk's book helped explain how such machines worked to engineers of the following generation.

Created / published[1896]
Medium1 print.
GenreBook illustrations 1890-1900.Prints 1890-1900.
NotesTitle devised by Library staff. Illus. in: The gas and oil engine / by Dugald Clerk. New York : J. Wiley & sons, [1896]. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 251.
SubjectsLenoir, Jean Joseph Étienne,--1822-1900. Gasoline engines--1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,310 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-186819

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