Excerpt from Practical Automobile Hand Book for Owners, Operators and Mechanicians: With Over Four Hundred Questions and Answers Fully Illustrated With Sharp, Clear Line Drawings A. The motive power of an automobile is a gaso line engine, which power comes from the explosion of compressed gas in the cylinders of the engine, which transmits the power derived from the explosion to the piston through the connecting rod to the crank shaft, then to the rear or driving wheels. Q. In a four-cylinder engine do 'all the cylinders explode at one time? A. No; the cylinders are alike and explode one at a time in rapid succession. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.