The Ford Motor Car and Truck and Tractor Attachments: Their Construction, Care and Operation (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Harold Phillips Manly

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ISBN 10: 0365447706 ISBN 13: 9780365447702

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Ford Motor Car and Truck and Tractor Attachments: Their Construction, Care and Operation

When liquid gasoline is turned to a vapor or gas and mixed with air the mixture burns very easily. If this gasoline and air vapor is compressed into a small space it will ignite and burn so rapidly that the action is like an explosion. While burning, this mixture increases in volume and the resulting pressure is made to do the work of driving the car.

In order to use the force of this explosive burning the mixture of gasoline vapor and air is placed in the cylinder of an engine. The upper end of this cyl inder is closed and the lower end is open as shown in Figure 1. In the lower end is a piston which makes a gas tight fit in the cylinder, yet slides freely from end to end. The burning mixture drives the piston down toward the open end of the cylinder and this motion of the piston turns a shaft from which is secured power to turn the wheels.

Attached to the engine is a device called a carburetor which turns the liquid gasoline into a vapor and mixes this vapor with the proper amount of air to make a combustible mixture.

To set fire to the gas an electric spark is caused to jump between two metal points inside of the engine cylinder, and in jumping through the mixture this spark ignites the gas.

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