Elementary treatise on physics experimental and applied for the use of colleges and schools (1890)
Ganot, A. (Adolphe), 1804-1887, Atkinson, E. (Edmund) · New York : W. Wood · leaf 474
ent which is found to decrease very much the rapidityof the explosion and so greatly increase the actual efficiency of the engine.Fig. 420 shows the principal parts of an Otto Silent gas engine, as now made.A is the cylinder, open at front and single-acting, in which works a deeppiston F, driving a… … lay shaft G. The valve B is kept up against its face by spiral springs E.D is a chamber in which a small jet of gas for igniting the mixture is con-tinually burning. C, is the cock for admission of gas, and C, an india-rubber bag to equalise the gas pressure. The working of the engine is asfollows…
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