Word: dieselization
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Fresh water supplies will be obtained by distillation with the heat of exhaust gases from her Diesel engines and with special electric heaters...
...Passed a bill to allow the Shipping Board to use $25,000,000 derived from ship sales to install Diesel engines in various vessels...
...Passed a bill authorizing the Shipping Board to spend $25,000,000 installing Diesel (internal combustion) engines in its vessels...
...That 200 of the remainder be set aside as a reserve and that a "given number" of these be equipped with Diesel engines instead of oilburning equipment. This would improve their efficiency by 25% and make it possible soon to repay money borrowed from the Shipping Board's construction loan fund...
...however, the Navy Department is studying a radical departure in airplane motors. Working on the 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...