"Gas engine" Quotes from Famous Books
... they haven't learned how to run a gas engine yet! Get out your magnifying glass, Tom; what's that, a ... — Tom Slade at Temple Camp • Percy K. Fitzhugh
... that the big steam tractors and engines could teach me and I did not want to waste time on something that would lead nowhere. A few years before—it was while I was an apprentice—I read in the World of Science, an English publication, of the "silent gas engine" which was then coming out in England. I think it was the Otto engine. It ran with illuminating gas, had a single large cylinder, and the power impulses being thus intermittent required an extremely heavy fly-wheel. As far as weight ... — My Life and Work • Henry Ford |