Harmsworth, Alfred Charles William, Sir, bart · London Bombay : Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 140
omplete insight into the variousparts of a petrol engine, and their respective functions. What is a Petrol Engine ?—■ Petrol Engine is a slangterm for an engine driven by a series of explosions of a mixtureof the vapour of a light spirit of petroleum with air. Gas engines are similarly driven by… … Fig. 2 Fig- 3 Fig. 2 represents the section of such a motor if it be cut inhalf; fig. 3 the same motor cut in half the other way through. p is a piston which accurately fits in a cylinder, and is freeto pass up and down the interior of same. The top of the pistontravels between the dotted line at…
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