...D CLERK © Thomas Telford and ICE 1886 EXPLOSIONS GASES GAS GASEOUS HOMOGENEOUS MIXTURES TESTS COAL AIR HYDROGEN TEMPERATURE PRESSURE COMBUSTION LIMITS INFLAMMATION ENGINES EXPERIMENTS METHODS VESSELS THEORY COOLING HEAT DISSOCIATION FLAMES THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL...

... does notenter,andinthis space the gases forming the inflammable mixture are compressed. The rise i n pressure therefore commences at the beginning of the strokeinstead of whenthe piston hastravelled out. I n this diagram the volume swept by the piston and the clearance space together are supposed...

...- thesis of slow inflammation (erroneously termed slow combustion) was afalse one. That when maximumpressure was attained in the gas-engine cylinder it was certain that the whole mass was completely inffamed, and thatno system of stratification producing slow inflammation could do good...