1990 Recipient

C. Lyle Cummins Jr.

is the first candidate to be chosen by the ASME History & Heritage Committee to receive its Engineer-Historian Award.

He is honored for the numerous contributions to the history of the art and science of engineering, specifically for his book Internal Fire: The Internal Combustion Engine 1672-1900 (Lake Oswego, Ore.: Carnot Press, 1976).  Also noted is his paper "Diesel Engines of 2,000 BHP per Cylinder: Pre-1914 Marine Engine Developments," History of the Internal Combustion Engine, ASME Internal Combustion Engine Division (ICE-Vol. 8), 1989.