GAS ENGINES.
IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS. Ur Talesraph— n r<?cß Assooiation-Oopyrishl (Rco. July SO, 11.15 p.m.) London, July 30. Tho Congress of Mechanical Engineers at Cambridge has discussed Professor Hopkinson's system of cooling gas engines, which involves tho supplanting of external application of water by internal application by means of a sprinkler projecting into tlio combustion chamber, thus preventing tho harmful cfl'ecls caused by corrosion. By keeping, the whole engine above 100 degrees Centigrade, all th» water is boiled boforo it Tcaclies the wall cylinder. The system, it is claimed,, cheapen.? tho cost of construction, and promises to make largo gas engines possible.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1816, 31 July 1913, Page 7
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101GAS ENGINES. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1816, 31 July 1913, Page 7
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