Download or read book Tractor and Gas Engine Review Volume 1 written by Bascom Byron Clarke and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...test made June 25, 1908, of an 18 H. P. Hopper-Cooled "WISCONSIN" Engine under a dead load of 5 hours, pulling 22 and H. P. or neariy 2Sri over its rated power, only evaporating 10 gallons of water in the test. All styles of Hopper-Cooled Engines are not successful owing to their style of construction. We have solved the problem and are able to furnish "WISCONSIN" Hopper-Cooled Engines in sizes up to 20 H. P. without adding any complicated pumps, fans or cooling-screens. Address, The Lauaon-Lawton Company, De Perc. Wisconsin The Lessons of the Fair GEO. CORMACK, JR. "Thoughts that great hearts once broke for, we Breathe cheaply in the common air."--Lowell. When attending our great State Fairs and watching the merry, careless, restless crowd drifting hither and thither amongst the marvelous products of inventive genius and scientific research, the foregoing lines by Lowell often recur to my mind; and I wonder how many of the gay crowd ever stop for a moment to think of their application to the things by which they are at the time surrounded. The things which the average person sees at the fair doubtless are directly very instructive but there are other things not directly seen which are equally so. From year to year the effects of the advancement of inventive genius, and the enormous importance of the mechanic in contributing to our comfort in every walk of life is strongly and vividly brought to our notice. The State Fair or any other great exposition is really one of the latest photographs of our civilization, graphically showing the latest stage of its development, and it pays everybody who has the moans to do so to attend at.least one State Fair every year. The direct lessons taught are valuable and...