The Gas Engine A Treatise On The Internal Combustion Engine Using Gas

Author : Frederick Remsen Hutton
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ISBN 13 : 9781331823032
Total Pages : 596 pages
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Download or read book The Gas-Engine a Treatise on the Internal-Combustion Engine Using Gas written by Frederick Remsen Hutton and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Gas-Engine a Treatise on the Internal-Combustion Engine Using Gas: Gasoline, Kerosene, Alcohol, or Other Hydrocarbon as Source of Energy When a previous treatise by the author was published under the title of "The Mechanical Engineering of Power Plants," it was suggested by one of his most gifted critics that the title should be amended because the book did not cover the power-plant practice which uses gas-engines. The point was well taken, but the omission was intentional. To have included the gas-engine would have made that book inconveniently bulky. Furthermore, the treatment of the gas-engine must be essentially different from that given to the steam-engine, and at that time the state of the art, both practically and scientifically, did not admit of the preparation of a satisfactory and exhaustive discussion. Since that time, however, there has grown up a largely increased appreciation of the fuel value of what were called the waste gases from the blast-furnace, and a wider extension of the manufacture of fuel gas in producers. The gas-engine has been extensively applied in the departments of electric lighting, and of compression, both of air and gas. It is since that time also that there has appeared the exacting demand for Motors for self-propelled vehicles and for small launches, so that it has become possible to undertake that for which the time was not ripe when the criticism was made. There was, at that time, little distinctively American practice to be studied, but the principal work had been done in England, Germany, and Belgium. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.