Sentence examples for reciprocating gasoline from inspiring English sources
The mechanical engineer is also responsible for the much smaller internal combustion engines, both reciprocating (gasoline and diesel) and rotary (gas-turbine and Wankel) engines, with their widespread transport applications.
Historically, large airplane reciprocating gasoline engines were usually supercharged both by geared blowers and by turbochargers to provide the large pumping capacity needed at high altitude; however, these engines have generally been replaced by turboprop engines.
Most gasoline engines are of the reciprocating piston-and-cylinder type.
The most successful for automobiles has been the gasoline-fueled reciprocating-piston internal-combustion engine, operating on a four-stroke cycle, while diesel engines are widely used for trucks and buses.
In a piston-and-cylinder engine the pressure produced by combustion of gasoline creates a force on the head of a piston that moves the length of the cylinder in a reciprocating, or back-and-forth, motion.
And Los Angeles is reciprocating.
Was gasoline available nearby?
Gasoline was again scarce.
