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Excerpt from A Study of the Performance of a Four Cylinder Automobile Gas Engine: Thesis A great deal of attention has been paid during the past few years to the economic Operation of gas engines for power generation, but relatively little attention has been given the autmmobile motor in this regard. The rapid and important growth of the automobile industry seems to demand that more detailed information be available with reference to the economy Of the motor car engine under various conditions Of operation, it being such an important and vital link in automobile design and efficient operation. The meager information given in the manufacturers' catalogs is generally based upon no scien tific investigations, but merely upon road tests for car speed and endurance. 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.