This, the twenty-first edition of Gas, Gasoline and Oil-Engines, by Gardner D. Hiscox, revised and enlarged by Victor W. Pagé, is a net book, and should be sold by the book trade at the retail price of $2.50. A COMPLETE, PRACTICAL WORK DEFINING CLEARLY THE ELEMENTS OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION PRODUCER GAS AND ITS PRODUCTION By GARDNER D. HISCOX, M.E. Author of "Mechanical Movements," "Compressed Air," Etc. BY VICTOR W. PAGE, M.E. Author of "The Modern Gasoline Automobile," Etc., Etc., Etc. SCIENCE TWENTY-FIRST EDITION Invaluable Instructions for all Students, Gas-Engine Owners, AN INCOMPARABLE TREATISE AND WORK OF REFERENCE NEW YORK THE NORMAN W. HENLEY PUBLISHING COMPANY 132 NASSAU STREET COPYRIGHTED, 1914, BY THE NORMAN W. HENLEY PUBLISHING CO. Also Copyrighted 1910, 1907, 1905, 1904, 1902, 1898, 1897 AND Entered at Stationers' Hall, London, England. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. COMPOSITION, ELECTROTYPING AND PRESSWORK 76 PREFACE TO THE TWENTY-FIRST EDITION A BOOK representing and illustrating the details of design, manufacture, and management of a new and progressive primemoving power, falls behind its time by age, and, therefore, needs rearrangement and additions to bring its text and illustrations up to date in all the departments of such progressive industry. There is probably no more important mechanical development involving the production of motive power for all purposes within the age of steam than that of the explosive motor and its far-reaching effect in the promotion of industry by supplying a cheap, reliable, easily understood source of power. So quickly has this new power expanded to almost universal usefulness as a labor-saving element in the lesser industries, that the literature of the past is found lacking in its up-to-date needs. Progress and improvement are the drift of genius in this advanced age. The advancement evidenced in adapting crude petroleum as fuel for explosive power, together with the rapid development of the producer-gas industry, have given a new economy in the production of power, while the use of the hitherto neglected gaseous elements of the blast-furnace and coke manufacture have added new sources of power production at a nominal cost. Discussions of the producer, blast-furnace, and coke-oven gases, which are now coming to the front on a large scale for economic power, are included in this work, while crude petroleum and its conversion into power is also described and illustrated at length. It has a growing usefulness as the cheapest power fuel where the erection of gas-plants is not convenient. The insurance interests have formulated rules and regulations for the safe installation of gasoline-motors and producer-gas plants, which are given a place in this edition as a much needed matter of reference. In the revised 1915 edition of this standard work every effort has been made to include striking examples of all recent developments in the field of internal combustion engineering. These include the new types of automobile, aircraft and motorcycle power plants, farm and gas tractor motors, marine engines and their use. Considerable descriptive matter is included relative to large ship motors and representative types of Diesel engines. The section on marine motors has been enlarged, and entirely new matter has been added on ignition, carburetion, lubrication, and motor testing. New tables, formulæ, and data pertinent to the subject have been secured and many new illustrations made. A portion of the matter relating to old type engines not manufactured at the present time has been retained, not only because of its historical value, but also on account of the number of such motors still in daily use. October, 1914. VICTOR W. PAGÉ. |