"BobH" wrote in message
.. .
steamer wrote:
--Remember the time they tried to make an I.C. engine run on
gunpowder? A bunch of us were talking about this the other day and we
seemed
to have vague memories of this actually working once, maybe in the 1800s.
Anyone got a reference? Also looking for anything on engines running on
acetylene. Fear not! Not going to put one in my car; just thinking of the
pyrotechnic spinoff for a *very* remote location, heh.


Mr. Diesel (Rudolf I think) was killed trying to make an engine run on
coal dust if I remember right.

BobH

He was injured in the explosion (for the second time in his life; the first
time was when a steam engine of his design, which used ammonia for a working
medium, blew up on him), but it didn't kill him. He was lost overboard on a
steamship -- possibly a suicide.

--
Ed Huntress