Gas Engine Design (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt From Gas Engine Design All Those Whose Interests Have Demanded Such A Quantitative Knowledge Of The Gas Engine, Either For Probable Output And Econ Omy Or For The Stresses In And Proper Strength Of Resisting Engine Parts, Have Met With Difficulty In Finding Reliable Data For Reference, As There Is No Book In English Treating Exclusively Of This Side Of The Subject. The Data Here Presented Are The Result Of Many Years Collection And Personal Experience, And Were First Classified In The Present Form For Lecture Use Before My Classes At Columbia Univer Sity. The Increase In Quantity Of Material During The Last Few Years Made It Seem Desirable To Publish The Notes In As Closely Condensed A Form As Possible Consistent With Clearness. 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 StateOfTheArt 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.