[AT] OT Gasifiers

[Don Bowen]

Somewhere in my old disks is a picture of an IHC F-12 built in Germany
during the war.  The 12 had a gas producer built around the front of the
engine.

Producer gas has a very long history from the beginning of the 19th century.
Most major cities had coal gas plants to provide street lighting home
heating.  A byproduct of the process was a black sticky goo that gave rise
to several industries.  England used the stuff to build all weather roads
and Germany used it to develop the first commercial dies and as a basis of
its chemical industry.

The first internal combustion engines in the early 1800s were non
compressing with flame ignition and used producer gas as fuel.  

Don Bowen  KI6DIU
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