The High Speed Internal Combustion engine by Harry Ricardo

[302ford]

Was curious i came across online the book entitled The High Speed Internal Combustion engine by Harry Ricardo and was wondering if it would be a good book to read?

[Kevin Johnson]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Ricardo

Yes.

[OILEAKY]

Better grab that while you can !

[Kevin Johnson]

I remember one of my hotrodder friends in SoCal had a copy. It stayed in a ziplock and if you wanted to look at it he would hold it and turn the pages for you.

[lada ok]

Was curious i came across online the book entitled The High Speed Internal Combustion engine by Harry Ricardo and was wondering if it would be a good book to read?

Sir Harry Ricardo, to you.

That book you will usually only find in the reference section of a LARGE library. This means you cannot take the book home and spill baked beans and coffee or a cuppa tea all over it .
Still one of the best testaments in the engine bible as we know it
Ricardo as a Co still exist, and do a lot of analytical work for the likes of Porsche, etc and even Harley Davidson.
John Schmidt would know of them

[Truckedup]

10 of the books available on Amazon right now...$212-$300 each....

[F-BIRD'88]

Read it in the library here, years ago. From cover to cover.

[302ford]

I found it on the website www.scribd.com/doc/40610101.

[numboltz]

There are numerous editions, including a reprint recently available through SAE.
The really great ones, IMO, are the earlier editions especially the one around 1952
[or so, mine is not available to me right now.] That is when he summed up what he
was doing through WW2. As we know, the ending of the war in 1945 was also the
dawn of the functional gas turbine, and the Brits foresaw that a bit earlier than the US
and cut back piston engine development accordingly. Thus the 2 cycle, direct injected,
stratified charge highly supercharged 3rd gen sleeve valve, among other interesting
things died, unborn. Ricardo's discussion on water injection is, to me, the most concise
and useful I am aware of.

That edition is somewhat available as I found one in the UK, stamped "discard" from the
RAF technical library.

[Rizzle]

I picked up Vehicular Engine Design by Kevin Hoag from my school lib, it seems to cover a good range of topics. I am enjoying it thus far.

Another tech that was abandoned after the war was the turbo compounding and turbine recovery for ICE engines. At least its starting to come back now.

[Unkl Ian]

I have a copy, somewhere, pretty good. Especially considering the age.

[Larry Salisbury]

One of my engine "bibles". I have the '42 edition. A must if you plan on designing engines. I think Ricardo is the vendor for the transmission assy on the Ford GT too.

Larry

[Nick Campagna]

When I was in school, Rensselaer class of '69, I used Internal Combustion Engines by Lichty, IIRC. It was a very good book.

[4sfed]

I found it on the website http://www.scribd.com/doc/40610101.

That's a bargain . . . 15 years ago I paid $200 each for my two editions.

[gofaster]

302ford wrote:
Was curious i came across online the book entitled The High Speed Internal Combustion engine by Harry Ricardo and was wondering if it would be a good book to read?

Absolutely! I still go back to my copy to check an idea from time to time. Don't let that one get away! There is a wealth of testing and explanations of why things work (or not) in that book.