Internal-combustion Sentence Examples

In 1905 and following years motor omnibuses (worked mostly by internal combustion engines) began to a large extent to supplant horse traction.

Ricardo's paper on" The Influence of Various Fuels on the Performance of Internal-Combustion Engines,"published in 1921.

It is in this direction, which is being actively followed up in the dominions and colonies, that the production of alcohol for use in internal-combustion engines is most likely to advance so far as the British Empire is concerned.

It would appear, however, that the production of power alcohol within the British Empire from waste materials, which can be collected and treated at low cost, offers the best chance of the solution of the problem of the supply to the United Kingdom of an alternative liquid fuel for internal-combustion engines.

Roald Amundsen sailed from Norway in the "Fram " (which had been fitted with internal combustion engines) in Aug.

This objection to the air-engine arises from the fact that the heat comes to it from external combustion; it disappears when internal combustion is resorted to; that is to say, when the heat is generated within the envelope containing the working air, by the combustion there of gaseous or other fuel.

Gas-engines and oil-engines and other types of engine employing internal combustion may be regarded as closely related to the air-engine.

They differ from it, however, in the fact that their working substance is not air, but a mixture of gases - a necessary consequence of internal combustion.

It is to internal combustion that they owe their success, for it enables them to get all the heat of combustion into the working substance, to use a relatively very high temperature at the top of the range, and at the same time to escape entirely the drawbacks that arise in the air-engine proper through the need of conveying heat to the air through a metallic shell.

Indeed they may simply help to extend the lifespan of the internal combustion engine longer than it would otherwise survive.

Rechargeable electric cells offer a clue, but remain ludicrously inefficient in power to weight ratios when compared to the internal combustion engine.

According to Liebig, man's body is a stove, and food the fuel which keeps up the internal combustion in the lungs.

For anyone who thinks you need an internal combustion engine to get serious driving performance, the Tesla Roadster is happy to prove you wrong.

Dr. Clennell proposed that the methane gas erupting into the atmosphere could ignite from the internal combustion airplane engines and explode, destroying the plane in the process.

Powered by an internal combustion engine and fueled by gasoline, this German car had three wheels.

Gas Powered Engines - Gas engines, also called internal combustion engines; provide power for most vehicles on the road today.

Diesel engines are also powered by the technology of internal combustion.

A patent by George Baldwin Seldon, first filed in 1879 and awarded in 1895, brought the major development of the internal combustion engine.

Assuming the above formula to represent guncotton, there is sufficient oxygen for internal combustion without any carbon being left.

About this date the output of alcohol in Germany and its use in stationary internal-combustion engines increased rapidly.