Download or read book Modern Gas and Oil Engines (Classic Reprint) written by Albert Spies and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Modern Gas and Oil Engines Quantity of water which, in vaporizing, absorbed considerable heat and thus kept the temperature within a reason able limit. The expansive force of the gases was in this way, it is true, some what diminished, but the moving parts suffered less, and the engine required less repair and was more durable. I gni tion of the explosive charge was effected by a gas jet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.