Motor Cars and the Application of Mechanical Power to Road Vehicles
- Author(s): Rhys Jenkins
- Category: Transportation and Vehicles
- Publisher: London, T.F. Unwin; New York, J. Pott & Company
- Publish year: 1902
- ISBN: 9678000005656
- Number of Pages: 403
The application of mechanical power to the propulsion of road vehicles is a subject which is now receiving a considerable amount of public attention. Interest in the matter is steadily growing, and there can be no doubt that the motor car has been perfected to an extent that fully entitles it to be regarded as a practical working machine, and we may look forward with certainty to an immense extension in its use during the next few years. In France the manufacture of motor cars has taken rank as an industry of first-rate importance, and we have every reason to hope that it will do the like in this country. That it has not already done so must be attributed to restrictive legislation but lately removed.
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Copyright
PREFACE
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER II ANIMAL POWER CARRIAGES
CHAPTER III SPRING-MOTOR CARRIAGES
CHAPTER IV CARRIAGES PROPELLED BY THE WIND
CHAPTER V THE EARLY ATTEMPTS TO APPLY STEAM POWER TO ROAD VEHICLES
CHAPTER VI THE STEAM-CARRIAGE BOOM, 1821-1840
CHAPTER VII THE APPLICATION OF COMPRESSED AIR
CHAPTER VIII STEAM CARRIAGES, 1858-1881
CHAPTER IX ELECTRIC CARRIAGES
CHAPTER X THE MODERN REVIVAL
CHAPTER XI THE PETROL MOTOR
CHAPTER XII PETROL CARRIAGES OF TODAY-BRITISH
CHAPTER XIII PETROL CARRIAGES OF TO-DAY CONTINENTAL AND AMERICAN
CHAPTER XIV MOTOR CYCLES
CHAPTER XV MODERN STEAM AND ELECTRIC CARRIAGES
CHAPTER XVII GEARING, BRAKES, TYRES, HORSE-POWER
CHAPTER XVIII CONCLUSION
INDEX