Dr. Wendell Mason V-2 Engine

		Wendell Mason taught engineering at UCLA and then spent some years in Indonesia teaching engineering. Sometime in the 1960’s he made this very good looking steam engine that is shown here running on a dynamometer. The engine was intended for a modern steam car and has since disappeared upon his death. It appears to be a piston valve double acting compound engine. The purpose of showing this engine is because a well designed sophisticated steam engine was made some years ago and then completely lost.

Mason was interested in steam, carried on extensive correspondence with many people and had a prepared slide show on steam engine valves. Copies of his correspondence are in my library as well as the slide show, but unfortunately the talk to go with the slide show has not been preserved.