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The Petrol Engine / A Text-book dealing with the Principles of Design and Construction, with a Special Chapter on the Two-stroke Engine

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A practical engineering guide to petrol-fuelled internal-combustion engines, presenting foundational thermodynamics, the Otto cycle, and detailed components such as cylinders, pistons, connecting rods, crankshafts, valves, camshafts, carburettors, ignition systems, lubrication, and cooling. Chapters explain two-stroke and four-stroke arrangements, a duplex air-scavenging two-stroke design, methods for measuring power with indicator diagrams, and properties of liquid fuels. Emphasis is on design, construction, maintenance, fault diagnosis, and practical illustrations and diagrams that support workshop application and understanding of engine operation and repair.

The Petrol Engine

A Text-book dealing with the Principles
of Design and Construction, with
a Special Chapter on the
Two-stroke Engine

By

FRANCIS JOHN KEAN

B.Sc. (Lond.); M.I.M.E.
First-Class Honourman in Engineering; Head of the Motor Car Engineering
Department of the Polytechnic School of Engineering, Regent Street,
London, W.; Formerly Lecturer on Experimental Engineering
at McGill University, Montreal, Canada

71 ILLUSTRATIONS

London
E. & F. N. SPON, Limited, 57 HAYMARKET

New York
SPON & CHAMBERLAIN, 123 LIBERTY STREET

1915