Harper's boating book for boys; a guide to motor boating, sailing, canoeing and rowing (1912)
Davis, Charles G. (Charles Gerard), 1870-1959, ed · New York, London, Harper & Brothers · leaf 252
un without any of these three things—they will not do it. While this is the A B C of gas-engines it stands to reason that with an outfit of this kind onemust use brains. Even a door-knob is apt to come loose,and that has only one screw, so why shouldnt things hap-pen on a motor-boat, where the… … A DOUBLE-ENDED MODEL 236 HOW THE ENGINE WORKS be kept in order? Even a door-bell will not ring if one ofthe wires comes loose from the dry batteries. No one ofthese in itself is particularly intricate, but all of them helpto swell the sum total of parts to be kept in mind. Theexhaust-pipe, for…
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