Kimmel Steam Engine Collection: George Sharp

This is a poppet valve V-2 that George Sharp made with Corvair cylinders and double acting poppet valves, all cast out of aluminum. Sharp died about 1999 and lived in Pismo Beach, California and thought about steam all of the time designing among other things a system to store heat or pressure so that when a car with a flash boiler would come up to a stop sign it would not over-heat and over-pressure, but store that extra energy for rapid acceleration. He had binders of notebooks of his inventions and slept 3 hours a night and worked on steam efficiency.

This is a poppet valve V-2 that George Sharp made with Corvair cylinders and double acting poppet valves, all cast out of aluminum. Sharp died about 1999 and lived in Pismo Beach, California and thought about steam all of the time designing among other things a system to store heat or pressure so that when a car with a flash boiler would come up to a stop sign it would not over-heat and over-pressure, but store that extra energy for rapid acceleration. He had binders of notebooks of his inventions and slept 3 hours a night and worked on steam efficiency.
He was not a member of any club or organization and thus no one knows of him or his steam work. He left three engines, that were preserved by his apprentice Tommy Hopper and that is all that is left of his life and steam work.

George Sharp Engine