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E-book Motor Gasolines Technical Review

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In May 1876, Nicolaus Otto built the first practical four-stroke-cycle internal combustion engine powered by a liquid fuel. By 1884, he concluded development of his engine with the invention of the first magneto ignition system for low-voltage ignition. The liquid fuel used by Otto became known as gasoline in the United States; elsewhere it may be known as gasolina, petrol, essence, or benzin (not to be confused with the chemical compound benzene). Although the U.S. petroleum industry was almost 50 years old when the first Model T rolled off Henry Ford’s production line in 1908, gasoline and the automobile grew up together. The industry was born in August 1859 near Titusville, Pa., when a drilling effort financed by Edwin Drake hit crude oil at a depth of 70 feet (21 meters). The major product in the early years wasn’t gasoline; it was lamp oil, called coal oil or kerosene. People were reading more and wanted better light than that provided by candles and whale oil lamps. The natural gasoline in crude oil was a surplus byproduct. Being too volatile to use in lamps, it was burned at refineries, dumped, or converted to a gaseous fuel for gas lights. The development of the electric light and the astonishing popularity of the automobile in the first decades of the 20th century turned the petroleum industry’s focus from kerosene to gasoline. In 1911, gasoline sales exceeded kerosene sales for the first time. The simple engines in the first cars ran on almost any liquid that burned. As the demand for power increased and engines became more sophisticated, gasoline was recognized as the right fuel for the spark-ignition internal combustion engine.

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No. Panggil

665.5 CHE m

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: CHEVRON.,

Deskripsi Fisik

124 hlm

Bahasa

English

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665.5

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text

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computer

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online resource

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Subjek

Technology of Industrial Petroleum

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