The internal combustion engine; a text-book for the use of students and engineers (1915)
Wimperis, Harry Egerton, 1876- · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 139
es which limit the efficiency ofgas engines is the high temperature during explosion and thevery rapid rate at which heat is then abstracted by thewalls. Two methods have been tried with a view tominimize this effect, the idea in each case being to reducethe maximum temperature of the cycle… … ^~
Internal combustion engines
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