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Gas Engines and Producer Gas Plants, by R.E. Mathot, originally printed in 1905 by Munn & Co., Office of the Scientific American, New York, NY. Reprinted by Lindsay Publications, Bradley, IL, 2001. 5½ x 8½ softcover, 314 pages. ISBN 1-55918-245-8. Please note this book is a new reprint, not used. What if you want to be as self-sufficient as possible? What are you going to do for power? If you’re on a windy plain, you could build a windmill. But will the wind blow steadily and reliably all the time? If you’re near a stream, you could build a waterwheel, or maybe even a turbine. What if the stream freezes? Solar cells work fine – when the sun is shining. You could build a boiler, steam engine, and dynamo and have your own electrical generating station. But, building a steam engine is tough. Finding a dynamo perhaps a bit simpler. But do you trust yourself to build a safe, pressurized steam boiler? There's a good chance that it'll be a bomb waiting to go off. This is what Mathot showed people how to do back in 1905, using those one lung engines, powered with gas generated by cooking wood and coal. Mathot provides details for many different gas generators, including drawings of a Simplex generator, a Dowson unit, a Fichet-Heurtey producer with rotating bed-plate, a Gardie unit, a sawdust purifier, a gas holder and washer, a Fange-Chavanon inverted-combustion producer and many, many more. You'll find more about gas production here than in a dozen other books. Chapters include selection of an engine, installation, foundation and exhaust, water circulation, lubrication, perfect operation, how to start the engine, perturbations in the operation, producer gas engine, producer gas, pressure gas-producers, suction gas-producers, oil and volatile hydrocarbon engines, and selection of an engine. This is not only valuable material to the homesteader and survivalist, but especially to the guy who wants to run his auto on coal and wood. Scaled down versions of these digesters were used all over the world during WWII and the years following due to petroleum shortages. And antique engine fans will find interesting details on early engines, ignition systems, and more. * U.S. media (book rate) mail is $4.35. PLEASE NOTE that our experience over the 2004-5 holiday season was that an alarming number of books took over four weeks to be delivered to states west of the Mississippi River. We think—and hope—this probably has something to do with homeland security rather than any sudden deterioration of postal service, but we really do not know. All we know for certain is that we do NOT want to deal with a number of inquires and complaints about “Where’s my books?†when there is NOTHING we can do after we hand the package to the postal clerk and have the receipt in hand. If you want to use media (book rate) mail please wait at least four weeks before you contact us to inquire about the whereabouts of your book. And note that all we’ll be able to tell you is the date we mailed it from the Post Office. We will NOT be able to tell you where the book is, or when the Post Office is going to deliver it. The history of industrial, transportation, and agricultural development From Steam Engines . . . to Spacecraft (please look at our rules and privacy policy) |
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