Abstract
AMONG the available text-books on the theory of the internal combustion engine, there are few which present a good account of the subject within a moderate compass and can be recommended to a student in his undergraduate course. This book would appear to satisfy this requirement and is a worthy contribution to the subject. The first three chapters give a brief historical sketch and a descriptive account of the cycles employed in the various types of gas and oil engines now in use, including the Still engine and the Humphrey gas pump. The next five chapters contain a good account of the thermodynamics of the subject, including a chapter on variable specific heats so far as they affect the transformations in an actual engine, the whole of which is well arranged and clearly written. The Elements of Internal-Combustion Engineering. By Telford Petrie. Pp. xi + 236. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1925.) 10s. 6d. net.
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