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THE first volume of this book, which we reviewed some three years ago (November 11, 1909), was devoted chiefly to thermodynamics. Dr. Dugald Clerk, with the help of Mr. Burls, has now issued the companion volume treating of the gas, petrol and oil engine in practice. The current volume is much bulkier than its predecessor, and is one calling more for the skill of an editor in its composition than for that of an author. “Practice” with gas, oil and petrol engines now covers such a ramification of diverse uses that it is exceedingly difficult to write any treatise on the subject which shall show at the same time breadth of knowledge and unity of conception; and it is characteristic of Dr. Clerk's writings that the former is always the more pronounced.
The Gas, Petrol and Oil Engine.
Vol. ii.: The Gas, Petrol and Oil Engine in Practice. By Dr. Dugald Clerk, and G. A. Burls. New and revised edition. Pp. viii + 838. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1913.) Price 25s. net.
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The Gas, Petrol and Oil Engine . Nature 91, 210–211 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091210b0
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