Auto-Cars Cars, Tramcars, and Small Cars e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Although still in its infancy, the auto-car industry has lately made such gigantic strides that it would be impossible to deal exhaustively with it in this little book. Electricity, steam, compressed air, and last of all petroleum having each in turn been applied to the solution of this pro blem, we ought, to deal thoroughly with the subject, first to dis cuss the sciences of electricity, thermodynamics, and chemis try, and then go into the question of mechanics and its special application to the sources of energy with which we have to deal, a process entirely beyond the scope of the present work. We will therefore merely touch upon steam, electrical, compressed-air, and other motors, giving, however, a more detailed description of petroleum motors, which, in our estima tion, seem to have a brilliant future before them. At the outset, however, we think it advisable to state the well-known fundamental laws of the thermo-dynamics of perfect gases, as these laws will be constantly referred to in this book.