design of Roots' Petroleum or Explosive Engine [Elevation (Left) and Vertical Central Section (Right)] from the book ' Motor cars; or, Power carriages for common roads ' by Alexander James Wallis-Tayler, Published in London, by Crosby Lockwood & son 1897. The Roots Blower Company was an American engineering company based in Connersville, Indiana. It was founded in 1859 by the inventors Philander Higley Roots and Francis Marion Roots. It is notable for the Roots blower, a type of pump. Today, Roots blowers are mainly used as air pumps in superchargers for internal combustion engines; they were

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design of Roots' Petroleum or Explosive Engine [Elevation (Left) and Vertical Central Section (Right)] from the book ' Motor cars; or, Power carriages for common roads ' by Alexander James Wallis-Tayler, Published in London, by Crosby Lockwood & son 1897. The Roots Blower Company was an American engineering company based in Connersville, Indiana. It was founded in 1859 by the inventors Philander Higley Roots and Francis Marion Roots. It is notable for the Roots blower, a type of pump. Today, Roots blowers are mainly used as air pumps in superchargers for internal combustion engines; they were first used in blast furnaces to blow combustion air to melt iron

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