Modern Practice in Heat Engines (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Telford Petrie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0484141821 ISBN 13: 9780484141826

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Modern Practice in Heat Engines

A resident engineer at one of our experimental sea stations during the war, who was an expert in what Kipling once called the Bridge dam-girder line, was present at a committee meeting when the silent propulsion of ships was under discussion. He said: Gentlemen, at our station experiments are being carried out on a new type of engine, which is so silent that it is called the still engine.' If this book ever reaches that engineer's library, I shall feel that it has not been written altogether in vain. I may even go further and express the hope that the steam section will interest the internal-combustion engineer, and vice vend.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0484141821
• ISBN 13: 9780484141826
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 283