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 269
isin favour of the poppet type of valve. 246 THE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE [chap, vm 151. Aeroplane Engines.—Aeroplane engines, althoughgenerally similar in principle to motor-car engines, require tobe made much lighter. The seven-cylinder Gnome rotaryengine is compact and very light for the… … Fig. 77.—Wolseley Aeronautical Engine. large lubricating oil consumption, it is not so desirable, especially for military purposes,* as a non-rotary engine which, although perhaps heavier, can have a silencer fitted. In Fig. 77 is shown a small, 60 H.P., non-rotary engine * At the War Office trials…
Internal combustion engines
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