Motor Manuals, Volume 1Chapman & Hall, Limited, 1925 - Automobiles |
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air-cooled aluminium alloy arrangement automobile engine balance big-end brake cam-shaft car engine carbon carburettor cast-iron cent centre clearance combustion chamber compression pressure CONNECTING ROD connecting-rod contact breaker cooling fins crank crank-case crank-pin crank-shaft cylinder barrels cylinder engine cylinder head cylinder walls diagram diameter driving employed engine speed exhaust gases exhaust port exhaust valve explosion fitted fly-wheel four-cylinder engine four-stroke gallon gear gear-wheel gudgeon pin heat horse power ignition illustrates inches inlet valve internal combustion engine latter light car lower Lubrication System magneto main bearings mechanical efficiency metal method mixture motor motor-cycle obtained oil troughs overhead valve petrol engine pipe piston rings radiator reciprocating rocker rotates running shaft shown in Fig side single cylinder single cylinder engine sleeve steam steel sump supply tappet temperature tests thermal efficiency throttle torque tubes two-stroke engine type of engine usually weight whilst
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Page 11 - ... of mercury), and the product added to or subtracted from the height of the barometer, according as the level of the liquid within the gas-jar is below or above that without. If the gas stands over mercury, the preceding factor is reduced to 1 ; if over water, it is 13155 The elastic force of a gas at a given temperature varies inversely as its volume.
Page 22 - ... petrol engine can work, in which only two strokes, or one revolution of the crank-shaft, are necessary for a complete cycle. This method, first invented by Sir Dugald Clerk in 1880, consists in partly compressing the mixture in a separate cylinder, or in the crank-case of the engine itself, and in admitting this mixture into the cylinder when the piston is at the outer end of its stroke.