Self-propelled vehicles; a practical treatise on the theory, construction, operation, care and management of all forms of automobiles (1906)
Homans, James E. (James Edward), b. 1865 · New York, T. Audel & Company · leaf 227
bsorbing about as much power aswould on the other plan be turned to waste. The Variation of the Curve of Expansion.—The reasongiven for the variation from the compression line of the curve ofexpansion following explosion is that the combustion is not onlynot instantaneous, but continues during the… … Fig. 158.—Section of the Atkinson Cycle Gas Engine, showing the varying lengths of thestrokes—from the top, exhaust, expansion, compression, suction; also, the figure-of-8path described by the toggle-jointed crank connections, and the path of the crank. the compression line at the end point of the…
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