Excerpt from Gas, Gasoline and Oil Vapor Engines: A New Book on the Subject, Descriptive of Their Theory and Power; Illustrating Their Design, Construction, and Operation for Stationary, Marine, and Vehicle Motive Power; A Work Designed for the General Information of Every One Interested in This New And
The entire lack of literature on explosive motors made in the United States, with the exception of such as have appeared from time to time in our journals and magazines, and the constant inquiry for information on the subject, has induced the author of this work to endeavor to present in practical shape for the ordinary reader the principles and practice of this class of motors as they are manufactured in our own country. German, French, and English books on gas, gasoline, and oil engines scarcely allude to American engines or American practice.
The author has been favored by a large number of explosive-motor builders with illustrations and details of motors of their manufacture. He hopes that, by the publication of his work, many inquiries will be answered, and that seekers for small power will find in the explosive motor the economical prime-mover they desire.
The early exhaustion of the first edition has verified the author"s prediction that there was need of a work of this character. The second edition has been corrected, revised, and contains much new matter, including data relating to the adaptation of these motors to vehicles and launches, a branch of the subject that is of great and growing interest.
The patents of 1897 under their proper heading have been added, and, to forestall inquiry, a list of the names and addresses of the builders of explosive motors in the United States, so far as they could be ascertained, has also been appended.
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