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 323
ES. carriage engine made in this country. The Knox engines aremade, however, with a dome-shaped compression space, thusreducing the compression ratio below the figure that would other-wise seem to be involved. Only two, the Stevens-Duryea and theColumbia light car, have a piston diameter greater… … Fig. 228.—The Gobron-Brillie Two-cylinder, Four-piston Balanced Engine. signed and constructed, several inventors, principally Frenchmen,have attempted to solve the vibration problem by extraordinarymechanical means. The most noted of these is the Gobron-Brilliedouble-cylinder engine, whose four…
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