Liquid Fuel for Mechanical and Industrial Purposes (Classic Reprint)
Author: Edward Arthur Brayley Hodgetts
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-01-11
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780428848132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Liquid Fuel for Mechanical and Industrial Purposes Indeed, since the year 1860, about which time the scientific application of liquid fuel to industrial purposes may be said to have commenced, it has made most rapid strides, and in 1870 it was used during the siege of Paris, when coal had given out and M. Fernand Hue, in his work entitled Aux Pays de Petrole, ' tells us that M. Sainte-claire Deville's furnace for burning petroleum in a liquid state was the means of enabling Paris to keep several of its large factories going during that' terrible year, as well as to grind its flour by steam. 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.
