Before the war there was no standard rating for internal-combustion engines, each manufacturer rating his motors according to his own ideas.
Our studies of small engines of the type used for driving pumps or operating woodworking and metal-working machines resulted in many improvements, which have been adopted by the manufacturers of internal-combustion engines.
The most satisfactory of the liquid fuels for use in internal-combustion engines, are alcohol and the light refined hydro-carbon oils, such as gasoline.
At present little is known as to how far many of the very cheap distillates and crude petroleums can be used as fuel for internal-combustion engines.
Tests of liquid fuels in internal-combustion engines, in charge of Mr. R.
All successful oil and gas engines are at present internal-combustion engines, the fuel being burned in a gaseous form inside the working cylinder.
Very numerous attempts have, however, been made to construct internal-combustion engines to burn solid fuel instead of gas.
When on the surface the submarine may be propelled by steam, internal-combustion engines, or any other kind of motive power adapted to the propulsion of surface ships.
This vessel was fitted with internal-combustion engines instead of steam, and was finally accepted by the United States Government in lieu of the Plunger, and placed in commission in 1900.
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