All About Engines
Forfatter: Edward Cressy
År: 1918
Forlag: Cassell and Company, LTD
Sted: London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
Sider: 352
UDK: 621 1
With a coloured Frontispiece, and 182 halftone Illustrations and Diagrams.
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The Petrol Motor 225
competition at the Aviation Meeting at Reims in
1909. In that year Lathom failed to cross the Channel
owing to a defect in the motor, while Blériot was
successful because the Anzani engine was reliable.
None of these early motors were of more than 25
horse-power. They had three or four cylinders
Fig. 128.—Diagrammatic transverse section of Gnome engine
arranged to work on one crank, and in many cases
more time was spent in getting the engine to work
than in actual flying.
In 1910 a great impetus was given to flying by
the invention of the Gnome engine, which was not
only more reliable, but also more powerful than any
which had been used before. The smallest size was
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