Modern Mechanical Engineering Vol-I

vi PREFACE

and includes COAL- AND ASH-HANDLING PLANT, RECIPROCATING-
ENGINES, TURBINES, CONDENSING PLANT, and an article on the
OPERATION OF LAND POWER PLANTS. In this last article the needs
of power-station engineers have been kept more especially in view.
This volume also contains a section on ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY.
Volume VI is devoted to Internal-combustion Engines, and
deals with GAS-ENGINES, OIL-ENGINES, MOTOR-CARS, AERO-ENGINES,
GAS-PRODUCERS, the OPERATION OF OIL-ENGINES, and the OPERATION
OF GAS-ENGINES.

THE EDITORS.

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