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A READABLE and instructive account of gas and petroleum engines is given in this little volume. The text can be easily followed by non-technical readers interested in gas and oil engines in use at the present time, and engineering students will find in the volume a good general survey of internal combustion motors. The subjects of the eight chapters are: the history of the gas engine, working principles of the gas engine, description of existing gas engines, carburetted air engine, petroleum engines, gas generating plant, engines for use with poor gases, and maintenance of gas and oil engines.
Gas and Petroleum Engines.
Translated and adapted from the French of Henry de Graffigny, and edited by A. G. Elliott Pp. x + 140. (London: Whittaker and Co., 1898.)
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Gas and Petroleum Engines. Nature 59, 76 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/059076a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/059076a0