[3] The most remarkable of his inventions was a patented six-stroke engine using water injected as a 5th stroke for extra power and cooling, to be ejected on the final (sixth) exhaust stroke.
Dyer was a member of somewhat high society, with a net worth of at least $500,000 in 1922.
He owned the Yacht "Jack 'O Lantern," which was piloted to several victories by Abbot H. Brush.
In late 1922, a petition for divorce was filed by his wife, Josephine Dryer in Greenwich, Connecticut, citing intolerable cruelty, and infidelity with a young woman from Greenwich.
In 1904 George Dyer was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt as governor of Guam.