The internal combustion engine; being a text book on gas, oil and petrol engines, for the use of students and engineers (1909)
Wimperis, Harry Egerton, 1876- · New York, Van Nostrand · leaf 142
THE GAS ENGINE 121 Then the right-hand piston in its further motion overrunsthe gas inlet ports and so a proper mixture is admitted,which, when the two pistons move in together, gets com-pressed for the next explosion. This gives an explosion forevery time the pistons separate, or an explosion… … Fig. 29.—Cross Section of 400 B.H.P. Koerting Engine byMather and Piatt. air and gas. That there are many difficulties to be over-come in the construction and working of large gas engines,particularly those working on the Clerk cycle, is shownby the unfortunate history of the generating station…
Internal combustion engines
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