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 22
ed fourteen years before by Beau deRochas, who, although he had patented it, had not made aworking success of the invention. Otto was a more practicalman, and he made his new engine very successful. Themethod of working was as follows :— (1) Air and gas were drawn in during an outward stroke of the… … OuterDead Centre CombustionChamber Exhaust Valve Fly Wheel Fig. 1.—Diagram of Otto Engine. (4) Discharge of the burnt gases on the return of the pistonduring the last stroke. This cycle of operations takes, it will be noticed, four strokesto complete, and is known as an Otto-cycle or Four-stroke…
Internal combustion engines
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