BY JOHN B. RATHBUN.
Author of “Gas Engine Troubles and Installation,” Editor “Ignition”—Instructor Chicago Technical College.
370 Pages, 150 Line Drawings and Illustrations.
This book is the most complete and up-to-the-minute book for the practical man on the subjects of gas, gasoline, oil, and steam engines. Oil burners for use in steam engines in a useful feature. Special emphasis is placed on farm tractors and their operation, both oil and steam driven. The engines described are the latest types, and include the Diesel, Semi-Diesel Gnome, Low and Turbine types.
CONTENTS
Heat and Power.—Fuels—Calorific Values of Fuels—Solid, Liquid and Gaseous Fuels—Kerosene—Gasoline—Crude Oil—Producer Gas—Illuminating Gas—Coal—Benzol. Working Cycles—Definitions of Cycles Indicator Diagrams—Practical Use of the Indicator—Typical Four Stroke Cycle Engines—Single Cylinder—Four Cylinder—Automobile—Opposed Type—V Type—Tandem—Twin Tandem—Rotary Cylinder—Radial—Diesel—Knight—Argyle—Rotary Valve. Typical Two Stroke Cycle Engines—Two Port—Three Port—Marine—Controlled Port—Aeronautic—Oechehauser—Gnome Rotary Two Stroke. Oil Engines—Elyria—Marine Diesel—Installation—Aspiration Types—Fairbanks Morse—Kerosene—Carburetion—Semi-Diesel—Combustion of Heavy Oils. Ignition Systems—Hot Tube System—Low Tension System—High Tension System—Details of Make-and-Break Batteries—Low Tension Magnetos—High Tension Magnetos—Coils—Adjustment—Troubles. Carburetors—Principles of Carburetion—Jet Carburetors—Water Jacketing—Fuel Supply—Different Types of Auto Carburetors—Adjustment—Carburetor Troubles. Lubrication—Forced Speed—Splash System—Oil Pumps—Lubrication Troubles. Cooling Systems—Evaporation Systems—Radiators—Air Cooling. Speed Governors—Automobiles—Stationary—Adjustment—Mixture—Control Hit and Miss—Mixed Systems. Tractors and Various Farm Engines—Gasoline and Oil Tractors—Mechanism of Various Types—Steam Tractors—Plowing and Threshing Costs—Plowing Contests Data—Two Speed Mechanisms—Draw Bar Pole—Oil Carburetors, etc. Oil Burners—Combustion—High Pressure System—Low Pressure System—Mixed System—Burners for Furnaces, Locomotives, Pennsylvania Type, Sheedy Burner, Kirchoff Burner, etc.
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