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 23
ce space. In Fig. 2 the face of the piston, at theend of compression, comes up to the line AB, and on the expan-sion stroke moves out as far as EF. Then the space betweenAB and CD is called the clearance ; the distance from ABto EF the stroke ; and the ratio of the volumes CDFE toCDBA the… … Fig. 2.—Diagram of Cylinder and Piston, showing clearance. . * x. volume C E F D Compression ratio = —.— —-=—.-,_..^ volume C A B D 6. Dugald Clerk.—In 1880 Dugald Clerk invented anengine which partook of the nature of the Lenoir in that itwas a two-stroke engine, and of the nature of the Otto in…
Internal combustion engines
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