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Engineering · Automotive Engineering

Internal Combustion Engines

A topic within Automotive Engineering, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Engineering.

Reading on Internal Combustion Engines

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2 works

Book1900

Gas, Gasoline and Oil Engines

Gardner D. Hiscox

Explains the internal combustion engine as it was actually being built at the turn of the century — ignition timing, valve gear, carburetion — for the mechanic who had to maintain one, not just theorise about it.

link checked 17 Sept 2026
Book1988

Internal Combustion Engine Fundamentals

John B. Heywood

Rebuilds engine engineering on thermodynamic first principles — combustion chemistry, gas exchange, pollutant formation — and became the standard graduate text against which every later engine design is checked.

Other topics in Automotive Engineering