Excerpt from Gas Power: A Study of the Evolution of Gas Power, the Design and Construction of Large Gas Engines in Europe
Basing my observations on the belief that the success of an industry is not furthered by the maintenance, on the part of the producer, of unscientific secrecy, but rests rather on the broadcast dissemination, among progressive nations, of accomplished truths, on the reciprocation of enlightenment, on the exchange of valuable knowledge, in short, on the scientific spirit of enterprise aided by international technical cooperation, it is the object of this study to present to American engineers a critical survey of the field of gas-power generation, conversion, and application in Europe, as it exhibits itself at this present phase of development.
So far as theoretical and practical research have been able to analyze the very complex process of converting combustible matter into useful power directly and without the intervention of inefficient and passive machine parts, and so far as the technical literature of this country can be regarded as reflecting the light of these investigations, it is evident that the few scientific treatises available on the subject have been devoted to either one of the three aims: The abstract study of the internal thermodynamic relations of gas-producing and converting apparatus; the quantitative side of design of their mechanism; and the historical or inventive evolution of the problem.
All of these modes of treatment are interesting in themselves and valuable in their combination. Perceptibly the cultivation of the mechanical engineering part, that is, the theory of construction of gas producers and engines, as an expedient in the practical development of the art, is most vital to the question, greatly more so than is a purely hypothetical analysis of the physical and chemical phenomena occurring in the working cycle.
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