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HOW
TO BUILD A THREE HORSEPOWER LAUNCH ENGINE
by E.W. Roberts was published in 1901 by The Gas Engine Publishing
Co., of Cincinnati, Ohio. It is a sixty-six page book that contains
complete text, drawings, and instructions for an amateur to build
a single cylinder, three horsepower, make'n'break, marine engine.
The process required the building of foundry patterns, casting the
parts, machining, assembling, and testing the engine. Quite
an extraordinary undertaking for an amateur, but apparently it was
done. Weston Farmer, in his book FROM MY OLD BOATSHOP, states that
when he was a child one of his neighbors build an engine from this
book. |
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E.W.
Roberts, M.E. was a prominent designer and technical writer in the
period from about 1895 to 1920. He also wrote THE GAS ENGINE HANDBOOK,
and ON MARINE MOTORS AND MOTOR LAUNCHES. He designed engines
for many of the early manufactures and built his own engines under
the name of Roberts Motor
Manufacturing Co. of Sandusky, Ohio. He wrote technical articles
for publications such as RUDDER, POWERBOAT, MOTOR BOATING, and HOME
STUDY MAGAZINE. |
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