| Author | Favary, Ethelbert, 1879-
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| Title | Motor vehicle engineering : engines (for automobiles, trucks, and tractors) / by Ethelbert Favary ...
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| Edition | Second edition. |
| Published | New York : McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1920.
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| Description | xiv, 333 pages : illustrations, folded plates, diagrams ; 24 cm
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| General Note | Includes index.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: Engine principles -- Compression, combustion, and expansion of gas -- Cylinder clearance and compression -- Theory of four cycle engines disclosed by indicator diagram -- Cylinder dimensions -- Valves -- Valve timing, cams, and camshafts -- Camshaft and accessory drives -- Pistons -- Connecting rods -- Crankshafts, engine balancing -- Kinetic forces -- Flywheels -- Crankcases -- Lubrication of engines -- Offset cylinders -- Manifolds -- Engine cooling, combustion chamber, etc. -- Power of engines, efficiency, torque -- Brake horsepower tests of automobile engines -- Mean effective pressure -- The manograph -- Brake horsepower test by electric dynamometer -- Brake horsepower test by hydraulic dynamometer -- Tractive effort and power required for motor vehicles -- Tractive factor, torque, etc. -- Materials -- Hardening steel -- Methods of testing the hardness of metals.
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| Subjects | Automobiles -- Motors.
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| LC Card Number | 20-5216
Canceled: 19006439 |
| Call Number/Copies | |
| | WRHS Research Library: TL 210 F272 1920
CA-1905199: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 142781] |
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