Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants / A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines

by Rodolphe Edgard Mathot

Transcriber's Note: The original publication has been replicated faithfully except as listed [here].

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Gas-Engines and
Producer-Gas Plants

A PRACTICE TREATISE SETTING FORTH THE PRINCIPLES OF GAS-ENGINES AND PRODUCER DESIGN, THE SELECTION AND INSTALLATION OF AN ENGINE, CONDITIONS OF PERFECT OPERATION, PRODUCER-GAS ENGINES AND THEIR POSSIBILITIES, THE CARE OF GAS-ENGINES AND PRODUCER-GAS PLANTS, WITH A CHAPTER ON VOLATILE HYDROCARBON AND OIL ENGINES

BY

R. E. MATHOT, M.E.

Member of the Société des Ingénieurs Civils de France, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Association des Ingénieurs de l'Ecole des Mines du Hainaut of Brussels

TRANSLATED FROM ORIGINAL FRENCH MANUSCRIPT BY

WALDEMAR B. KAEMPFFERT

WITH A PREFACE BY

DUGALD CLERK, M. Inst. C.E., F.C.S.

ILLUSTRATED

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NEW YORK

MUNN & COMPANY

OFFICE OF THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

361 BROADWAY

1905

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