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Synonyms: centrifugal; drive; gas; gasolene; gasoline; motive; motor; petrol

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  1.  Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers / Doubleday, Russell, 1872-1949
    -ship was ordered the young Brazilian experimented with his three-and-one-half horse-power gasoline motor in every ... was retained, but an eighteen horse-power gasoline motor was substituted for the sixteen horse-power used  details...
  2.  The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone / Bonner, Richard
    -built table on which were ranged some odd-looking bits of apparatus. There was a gasoline motor in one corner ... my own alternator, which is attached to that gasoline motor. There is a similar one in the shed from which you just  details...
  3.  Virginia: the Old Dominion /
    in which two little gasoline motors sat side by side, and the galley was an engine ... by two small gasoline engines. Though not a thing of beauty, yet, as she swung lazily at her moorings  details...
  4.  Tom Swift and His Motor-Boat, or, the Rivals of Lake Carlopa / Appleton, Victor [pseud.]
    he had shut off the gasoline cock leading from the tank of his boat to the motor. It was a calm, early summer ... , which may happen at any time to a gasoline motor, happened to Andy's. It began to miss explosions  details...
  5.  The Boys of Bellwood School / Webster, Frank V.
    ?" asked the curious Frank. "It's a little gasoline motor," explained Ned. "Step in and see what a famous ... near the motor, and things went whirring. There was a busy hum that made the place delightful to Frank  details...
  6.  The Boy Scouts on Picket Duty / Shaler, Robert
    off these jail birds mighty quick!" Suddenly the distant tchug-tchug of a gasoline motor boat came to his ears ... of muffled oars, or the tchug-chug-tchug of a motor boat. Then a voice said softly, 'It's a fine morn---' Oh  details...
  7.  or Facing Death in the Antarctic / Goldfrap, John Henry, 1879-1917
    with gasoline motors and all this clumsy arrangement of boilers and complicated piping will be done away with ... ; we must be at the Eric Basin at two o'clock." "As late as that? Well, building a motor sledge and fixing  details...
  8.  Fascinating San Francisco /
    with the employment of gasoline motor boats. [Kearny and Beach car to end of line and walk along the waterfront ... that winds over Twin Peaks. You may motor there, walk or take a street car to the foot of this city mountain  details...
  9.  Certain Success / Hawkins, Norval A.
    _. You are like a gasoline motor developing but a quarter of the power it was designed to produce ... Manager of the Ford Motor Company. Under my direction in the course of that period Ford sales  details...
  10.  as Young Experts / Durham, Victor G.
    --" "Taking a nap?" "Hal was tinkering with the gasoline motor, and I was reading." "Reading?" fumed Mr ... while to start the gasoline engine." Now, the boat came to a stop, with a slight reversing of her propellers  details...

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