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 218
at present devised is not sufficiently elasticin its manner of working to make it an effective rival to thesteam engine for marine purposes. The difficulty may besolved by driving generators from the gas engines, so pro- THE GAS PRODUCER 197 ducing electric current which can be used in motors… … Fig. 57.—Two-cylinder Suction Gas Engine and Producer for MarinePurposes. (By courtesy of Messrs. J. I. Thornycroft & Co.) propulsion, and illustrations are shown in Figs. 57 and 58 ofthe engines they are interested in. The chief difficulty is todevise a suction producer which will work with…
Internal combustion engines
Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
