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Also known as: petrol engine
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Charles Lafayette Proctor
Engineer-of-Record, Proctor Engineering Research & Consulting, Inc., Alachua, Florida.
Charles Lafayette Proctor,
Orville C. Cromer
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1954–63. Coauthor of Elementary Heat Power.
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gasoline engine, any of a class of internal-combustion engines that generate power by burning a volatile liquid fuel (gasoline or a gasoline mixture such as ethanol) with ignition initiated by an electric spark. Gasoline engines can be built to meet the requirements of practically any conceivable power-plant application, the most important being passenger automobiles, small trucks and buses, general aviation aircraft, outboard and small inboard marine units, moderate-sized stationary pumping, lighting plants, machine tools, and power tools. Four-stroke gasoline engines power the vast majority of automobiles, light trucks, medium-to-large motorcycles, and lawn mowers. Two-stroke gasoline engines are less common, but ...(100 of 9074 words)

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