Definition of internal combustion engine

Reference was made in connection with the electrical ignition of internal-combustion engines (p. 101) to the induction coil.

She was the first submarine to be fitted with an internal-combustion engine.

The internal-combustion engine is the heart of the submarine.

The stillness of just-before-dawn was broken by the distant rumble of an internal-combustion engine.

Fuel oil can be largely supplanted by coal, but for the internal-combustion engine there is no quantitative substitute.

It represents the greatest possible utilization of the power of heat in an internal-combustion engine.

The tool has come, the internal-combustion engine is altering the face of the marine world.

Fortunately, the development of the internal-combustion motor was not delayed by the lack of suitable fuel.

He built the first internal-combustion motor suitable for a practical man-carrying aeroplane.

Its greatest popularity now arises out of its use in the internal-combustion engine, and of the making of these there is no end.