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Example sentences for "combustion engine"

  • It represents the greatest possible utilization of the power of heat in an internal-combustion engine.

  • The gas created by the process can be delivered by pipe lines over practically any distance to the centers of consumption, or, with the help of the internal-combustion engine, converted into electrical energy at the mine.

  • The internal-combustion engine was by this time pretty well understood, and, with the will to do it, might have been made light enough for the purpose.

  • Besides the main business of flying, the pupils were instructed and examined in map-reading and signalling, the management of the internal-combustion engine, and the theoretical aspects of the art of reconnaissance.

  • Defn: A kind of internal-combustion engine; -- in British countries called usually petrol engine.

  • The internal-combustion engine is best suited for surface work because it can be started or stopped instantly, which is a desirable feature in submarine work.

  • I was the first to use successfully an internal-combustion engine in a submarine boat, the Argonaut.

  • She was the first submarine to be operated successfully with an internal-combustion engine.

  • The tool has come, the internal-combustion engine is altering the face of the marine world.

  • The Government is just putting in operation this month the first great barges for the Mississippi River intended to carry ore south and coal north, made possible because of the internal-combustion engine.

  • To have or experience a back fire or back fires; -- said of an internal-combustion engine.

  • Bleriot; for an exposition of the internal-combustion engine I have drawn on Mr. Horne's The Age of Machinery.

  • The first three years would be devoted to developing a light internal-combustion engine, and the remaining two years to making a flying machine.


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