Identifier: harpersboatingbo01davi (find matches)
Title: Harper's boating book for boys; a guide to motor boating, sailing, canoeing and rowing
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Davis, Charles G. (Charles Gerard), 1870-1959, ed
Subjects: Boats and boating
Publisher: New York, London, Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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o some gasolene-engines are made of better proportions,or of a better grade of metal, or have better workmanshipthan others. You cant expect to get a hundred-dollar arti-cle for twenty-five dollars. But you do get a fair enginevery cheaply to-day compared to the cost a few years ago. Accessories What is of more importance, the engines of to-day aregenerally fitted with everything in the way of accessoriesbest suited to that motor. Engine manufacturers havefound it pays them to sell a more complete plant than for-merly. When gasolene-engines were first put on the marketit was like buying a pair of trousers at one store, a waist-coat at another, and a coat at another. That is to say, youmight be able to match the goods, and you might not. Butnow you buy the whole outfit at one place, and the resultsto both engine manufacturer and buyer are more satis-factory. There is one prominent company which built upa reputation for its engines just because they insisted on 237 BOATING BOOK FOR BOYS
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A POWER-DORY IN THE HUDSON RIVER OFF THE COLUMBIA YACHT CLUB supplying the carbureter to mix the gas and an ignitionoutfit to discharge it which they knew to be best suited totheir motor. They made a reputation for themselves, whileother engines, perhaps just as good, were being sold with-out these important parts, and, as few owners were able toget the right accessories, the reputation of those enginessuffered. It is the outfit as a whole that counts. Two-cycle and Four-cycle Engines Gasolene-engines are divided into two kinds: two-cycleand four-cycle. The two-cycle are generally in the smaller-sized engines, and the four-cycle are more common in en- 238 HOW THE ENGINE WORKS gines of greater horse-power. The term cycle is somewhatconfusing, since most people think of it as a circle andimagine that the fly-wheel makes two or four circles. Thisis not the case. If we used the terms two-stroke and four-stroke engines, as they do in England, this popular errorwould not have existed. The t

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