Word: carburetor
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...quarter kilowatt of power on engines in the laboratory, and needs only to strengthen its current for operation at a greater distance to bring airplanes in flight to a full stop and send them crashing to earth. No insulation is proof against this weapon, for if the carburetor were sufficiently protected, the ray could be so intensified as to set the wing fabric afire. Said he: "I believe that in the near future machine guns will be found only in museums...
...some of his thought is expended on his surroundings rather than himself--it can hardly be regretted. What is regrettable is the forgetfulness that comes with Spring. Talks around the fire cease with fire, books are neglected for the sporting page, and the fountain pen drops into the carburetor. Education becomes an unfortunate restraint, and for all the average undergraduate cares the College may order or disorder his work as it please. "Lhude sing cuccu...
...Imbert, a young French engineer, at Lyons. The charcoal is carried in the regular gasoline tank. It is ignited by a piece of burning waste, giving off a gas consisting largely of carbon monoxide, with azote, carbonic acid gas and hydrogen, which is drawn through a pipe to the carburetor. On the way it is cooled and freed from dust. In the carburetor the gas is mixed with air, as in a gasoline engine, whence it is drawn into the cylinders. To develop the same power as gasoline, a larger tank must be used, but the cost is only...
...famous Diesel engine principle, air may be compressed to 600 pounds per square inch or more than 40 times atmospheric pressure before delivery to the cylinder. With this enormous pressure liquid gasoline may be injected directly into the cylinder with the compressed air, without the necessity for a carburetor. The temperature of the mixture of fuel and air is so high that it will ignite spontaneously without any ignition system. The carburetor and the ignition systems are the great terrors of the flyer, as they are of the motorist, and their removal may mark a new era in airplane reliability...
...chamber by a small pipe leading from below the butterfly valve, is circulated at high velocity in the chamber by the explosion caused by the spark plug in the chamber, and then goes through a small opening into the manifold where the usual wet and cold mixture from the carburetor is converted into superheated gas which explodes entirely upon ignition...