Internal combustion engines

BIBLIOGRAPHY ON INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
1.

F. Obert, Internal Combustion Engines and Air Pollution, Intext Educational Publishers, 1973 edition. (A good basic text on engines from the 1950s with modest updating in 1968; much excellent descriptive material.)

2.

C. Fayette Taylor and Edward S. Taylor, The Internal Combustion Engine, International Textbook
Company, 1961.
(A basic text now out of print and somewhat dated.)

3.

C.F. Taylor, The Internal Combustion Engine in Theory and Practice. Volumes I and II, M.I.T.
Press, 1966 and 1968. Reissued in paperback in 1977, and in 1985 as Second Edition with minor modifications. (A much expanded version of reference 2; an advanced text with extensive material on engine design practice of the 1950s and 60s).

4.

A.R. Rogowski, Elements of Internal Combustion Engines, McGraw-Hill, 1953.
(An elementary text used primarily for undergraduate teaching.)

5.

L.C. Lichty, Combustion Engine Processes, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 6th edition, 1967.
(A good basic text on all types of combustion engines, now somewhat dated.)

6.

M. Khovakh (general editor) Motor Vehicle Engines. English translation form Russian. MIR
Publishers, Moscow, 1976.
(A Russian text with an excellent ordering of subject material.)

7.

D.J. Patterson and N.A. Henein, Emission from Combustion Engines and their Control, Ann Arbor
Science Publishers, Inc., 1972.
(A comprehensive text on engine emissions; now somewhat dated.)

8.

Robert U. Ayres and Richard P. McKenna, Alternatives to the Internal Combustion Engines, Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1972.
(A fundamental text on the alternative engines to the internal combustion engine.)

9.

M.J. Nunney, The Automotive Engine, Newnes-Butterworths, London, 1974.
(A book which reviews modern automotive engine practice; contains descriptions of design and operation of engines and engine components.)

10.

Kenichi Yamamoto, Rotary Engine, Toyo Kogyo