WeRead Powered by ReaderPub
A boy's text book on gas engines cover

A boy's text book on gas engines

Chapter 2: PREFACE
By Fay Leone Faurote
Open in WeRead

Explore more books like this:

Engineering & TechnologyHow To ...

About This Book

This practical manual presents a clear, illustrated introduction to automobile gas engines aimed at young readers. It breaks the engine down into individual parts—valves, piston, crankshaft, connecting rod, crankcase, carburetor, ignition and cooling systems—explaining how each functions and how they interact. It describes the four-stroke cycle and the two-cycle motor using simple analogies and step-by-step diagrams, and offers accessible explanations of operation, maintenance, and common mechanisms so readers can visualize and reason through engine action.

PREFACE

Knowing that the motor car is fast becoming the modern form of transportation, both in the social and commercial world, and feeling that the principles of the mechanism which constitutes its propelling power are as yet somewhat of a mystery to the average individual and to “Young America” in particular, the author feels that some of the simple explanations offered in the following pages of this book will be welcomed and appreciated. While they do not cover the entire subject, it is hoped that they may tend to shed some light, and in a way make understandable the construction and operation of the automobile gas engine.

FAY L FAUROTE.

November 25, 1907.

A Four-cylinder Motor, so sectioned that it shows interior of cylinder, valves, piston, crank shaft and connecting rods.