Gas Engines, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

William Macgregor

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ISBN 10 : 0282785345 ISBN 13 : 9780282785345

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Motive-powers have a division by natural selection into two classes large and small. The latter might again be divided into manofacturing and domestic. Large powers have been, and are for some considerable period in the future likely to be, provided by steam and water. By large powers are here meant thousands of horse-power. But, for the hundreds of horse-power required in daily increaaing manufactures the gas engine is at present adapted, and has an economy in application rivalling even the steam engine. For the tens and units of horse-power employed in our smaller industries and in domestic requirements the gas engine has become unique. And it is very strange that an industrial machine having flo wide-spread application should have no literature. That this is so is sufficient apology for the issue of this work, however great its sins of omission. That the work should be exhaustive has not been the aim: rather that it should be typical. In tiiis view an historical machine has, in some instances, been described, instead of the enoe, as mechanically more nearly perfect, for the reason that the principle is more clearly shown by the earlier design. Yet in every such instance reference will be found to have been made to the latest patents. In dealing with the theory of the gas engine all refer nce 8 to the cycles of Camot and to the engine considered as a theoretical heat engine have been very carefully avoided. For in practice the gas engine has no affinity D, g, t,.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0282785345
• ISBN 13: 9780282785345
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 244
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