ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS. 29 



Works by BRYAN DONKIN, M.Inst.C.E., M.InstMeeh.E., &e. 



GAS, OIL, AND AIR ENGINES: 



A Practical Text - Book on Internal Combustion Motors 

 without Boiler. 



BY BRYAN DONKIN, M.lNST.C.E., M.INST.MECH.E. 



SECOND EDITION, Revised throughout and Enlarged. With numerous 

 additional Illustrations. Large 8vo, Handsome Cloth. 255. 



GKNKRAL CONTENTS. Gas Engines : General Description History and Develop- 

 ment British, French, and German Gas Engines Gas Production for Motive Power 

 Theory of the Gas Engine Chemical Composition of Gas in Gas Engines Utilisation of 

 Heat Explosion and Combustion. Oil Motors : History and Development Various 

 Types Priestman's and other Oil Engines. Hot-Air Engines : History and Develop- 

 ment Various Types: Stirling's, Ericsson's, c., &c. 



"The BEST BOOK NOW PUBLISHED on Gas, Oil, and Air Engines. . . . Will be of 

 VERY GREAT INTEREST to the numerous practical engineers who have to make themselves 

 familiar with the motor of the day. . . . Mr. Donkin has the advantage of LONG 



PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE, Combined with HIGH SCIENTIFIC AND EXPERIMENTAL KNOWLEDGE, 



and an accurate perception of the requirements of Engineers." The Engineer, 



"We HEARTILY RECOMMEND Mr. Donkin's work. ... A monument of careful 

 labour. . . . Luminous and comprehensive." Journal of Gas Lighting. 

 " A thoroughly RELIABLE and EXHAUSTIVE Treatise." Engineering. 



In Quarto, Handsome Cloth. With Numerous Plates. 255. 



STEAM BOILERS: LAND AND MARINE 



(The Heat Efficiency of). 



With many Tests and Experiments on different Types of 



Boilers, as to the Heating- Value of Fuels, &e., with 



Analyses of Gases and Amount of Evaporation, 



and Suggestions for the Testing of Boilers. 



BY BRYAN DONKIN, M.lNST.C.E. 



GENERAL CONTENTS. Classification of different Types of Boilers 

 425 Experiments on English and Foreign Boilers with their Heat Efficiencies 

 shown in Fifty Tables Fire Grates of Various Types Mechanical Stokers 

 Combustion of Fuel in Boilers Transmission of Heat through Boiler Plates, 

 and their Temperature Feed Water Heaters, Superheaters, Feed Pumps, 

 &c. Smoke and its Prevention Instruments used in Testing Boilers 

 Marine and Locomotive Boilers Fuel Testing Stations Discussion of the 

 Trials and Conclusions On the Choice of a Boiler, and Testing of Land, 

 Marine, and Locomotive Boilers Appendices Bibliography Index. 



With Plates illustrating Progress made during the present Century, 

 and the best Modern Practice. 



H98T "A WOKK OF REKBRKNCE AT PRESENT UNIQUE. Will give an answer to almost any 

 question connected with the performance of boilers that it is possible to ask." Engineer. 



"Probably the MOST EXHAUSTIVE rexume' that has evr been collected. A PRACTICAL 

 BOOK by a thoroughly practical man." Iron and Coal Trades Review. 



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