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Excerpt from Carbureting and Combustion in Alcohol Engines Germany and France, but the most extensive study of the subject which has yet been printed is the work, recently published in France, a translation of which is here presented. The original researches of which this book is largely an account were made under a commission from the French minister of agriculture. The book deals but slightly, and then only in a general way, with what might be called the structural details of the alcohol engine. As a matter of fact the only important essential difference between an alcohol engine and an internal combustion engine for using any other fuel, lies in the apparatus for properly preparing and proportioning the explosive mixture composed of the vaporized fuel and air. This work takes up and treats exhaustively the physical and chemical principles upon which the design of all satis factory alcohol engines must depend. Most of the data herein given had never been investigated before M. Sorel began his researches. A thorough comprehension of the results of these researches will serve to prevent many useless and expensive experiments in inventing alcohol engines; and, in fact, it does not seem too much to say, that an adequate understanding of these results will prove indis pensable to the design of a satisfactory alcohol engine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.