(Modern) Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants

Original Hardcover, First American Edition 1905 The Norman W. Henley Publishing Company, New York 314 pages plus 10 pages of gas engine related and book advertisements. Very Good, no DJ - as issued. Minor shelf/edge wear to green decorative embossed cloth with bright gilt spine titles - corners sharp with a touch of wear to the tips. No previous owner markings - all pages are clean and unmarked. Printed on high-quality heavyweight paper. Translated from the original French edition. Subtitled - A Practical Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas Engines and Producer Design, The Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines Systems of governing and valve-gears of European gas engines. Description and critical review of the modern devices in use in the leading constructions. Fifteen chapters and 152 illustrations. Chapters: 1) Motive Power And Cost Of Installation, 2) Selection Of An Engine, 2) The Installation Of An Engine, 4) Foundation And Exhaust, 5) Water Circulation, 6) Lubrication, 7) Conditions Of Perfect Operation, 8) How To Start An Engine - Preliminary Precautions, 9) Peturbations In The Operation Of Engines And Their Remedy, 10) Producer - Gas Engines, 11) Producer - Gas, 12) Pressure Gas - Producers, 13) Suction Gas - Producers, 14) Oil And Volatile Hydrocarbon Engines, and 15) The Selection Of An Engine. This was the state of the art in 1905. Handsome vintage copy. LOC SSS-07

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Publisher: The Norman W. Henley Publishing Company, New York

Year: 1905-01-01

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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