MOTOR-CAR PRINCIPLES
MOTOR-CAR
PRINCIPLES
THE GASOLINE AUTOMOBILE
BY
ROGER B. WHITMAN
ILLUSTRATED
NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
NEW YORK, LONDON MCMX
Copyright, 1907, 1909, by
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
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INTRODUCTION
The development of the gasoline automobileat home and abroad has produced a greatvariety of designs, good, bad, and indifferent,but the advancement of the industry hasweeded out the unsatisfactory and improvedthe good until with few exceptions the leadingmakes show a striking similarity in all butdetails. The advantages of certain forms ofconstruction have been recognized, and theiradoption by the large majority of makers hasproduced what may be called a standardtype.
The object of this book is to explain theprinciples that underlie automobile constructionand operation, and to illustrate the movementsand mechanical combinations adoptedin present-day practice. It is not the intentionto explain the exact details of construction[Pg vi]of the different cars, and the illustrationshave been prepared with the sole object ofmaking the principles clear, for with an understandingof these there should be no difficultyin comprehending any particular application ofthem.
The lubrication table on pages 244 and 245,which was prepared by Mr. T. D. Hanauer, isreproduced through the courtesy of the ScientificAmerican.
The advantages of magneto ignition for internalcombustion engines are so obvious thatdesigners and inventors have directed theirattention to the perfection of apparatus thatwill improve present methods. The number ofsystems proposed for the purpose is very largein comparison with the number in actual andpractical use, and as in a work of this size itwould be impossible to describe the manymethods for the application of the magnetothat are on the market, attention has beengiven only to those that are in actual, everydayuse. The absence of a practical treatiseon the principles, application, and care[Pg vii]of low and high tension magnetos is the reasonfor the addition of the appendix to thiswork.
R. B. W.
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CONTENTS
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