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MR. DUGALD CLERK originally published this book under the title of “The Gas Engine” in 1886. Ten years later it reappeared in enlarged form as the “Gas and Oil Engine.” It has now been found necessary, the author tells us, to re-write practically the whole of it, and in doing so the further change of dividing it into two volumes has been made. This is in itself evidence of the development of science and practice that has taken place during the last twenty-three years. The two new volumes are to be called “The Thermodynamics of the Gas, Petrol, and Oil Engine,” and “The Gas, Petrol, and Oil Engine in Practice.” It is the first of these volumes which is now issued. It is ostensibly a book on the thermodynamics of the gas engine, and it is as such, therefore, that it must be examined and discussed. We may say at once that it is quite unlike any other book on thermodynamics that we remember to have read. Its appeal must be to the comparatively small number of engineers and physicists who are familiar alike with modern practice in gas-engine work and with some of the most recent results in physics. To the experimenter in this important field of work, it will be invaluable as containing in compact form a record of the latest experiments as well as an occasional commentary upon them from the author's standpoint.
The Gas, Petrol, and Oil Engine.
By Dugald Clerk Vol. i. New and revised edition. Pp. ix+380. (London: Longmans and Co., 1909.) Price 12s. 6d. net.
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The Gas, Petrol, and Oil Engine . Nature 82, 31 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/082031a0
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