The Encyclopaedia of Sport and Games

Every sport and game of the Edwardian world in four volumes — from angling and ballooning to yachting — written by the people who did them, Theodore Roosevelt on big game among them.

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Carburettor

The device which brings about the mixing of petrol (or any volatile "hydrocarbon") with a sufficient quantity of air for the conditions ruling.

Cardan Joint.-A device whose function is to translate power between two shafts, which do not lie in the same plane.

Cell.-[See "BATTERY."] Centrifugal Pump.-A very usual form of water pump, used to induce a proper circulation of cooling water.

Change Speed Gear.- [See text.]

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