Supply and Cost

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. PREFACE III
3. List of Contributors and Revisers for Volume IV V
4. TABLE OF CONTENTS IX
5. I. Gases and Oils
6. Fundamental Chemical Notions 1
7. Fuels 22
8. Illuminating Gas and Oil-Gas 30
9. Producer-Gas 33
10. Industrial Waste Gases 63
11. Purification of Gas 66
12. Moving of the Gases 79
13. Gas Examination 87
14. Motor Oils 99
15. II. Theory of Internal Combustion Engines
16. General Theory 109
17. Working Cycles 118
18. III. Materials and their Manipulation
19. Materials 131
20. Manufacture 142
21. IV. Construction of Internal Combustion Engines
22. Engine Bed and Frame 151
23. Cylinder 157
24. Piston 168
25. Driving Gear, Moving Parts 183
26. Theory of Driving Gear 191
27. Valve Gear 198
28. Governing of Four Stroke Cycle Engines 227
29. Distribution and Governing of Two Stroke Cycle Engines 240
30. Details of Oil Engines 247
31. V. Equipment of Internal Combustion Engines
32. Centrifugal Governor 267
33. Lubrication 273
34. Ignition 279
35. Starting Gear 291
36. VI. Erection
37. Foundation of the Engines 300
38. Piping, Tubing 309
39. VII. Complete Plants
40. Stationary Plants 323
41. Portable Engine Plants 337
42. VIII. Working and Testing
43. Working 341
44. Testing 350
45. IX. Economics
46. Supply and Cost 368
47. Employer and Employee 379
48. Alphabetical Index giving the Page and Column in which each Word is to be found
49. a) German, English, French, Italian and Spanish in one alphabet 387
50. b) Russian 554