INTERNAL COMBUSTION • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Internal combustion

... organism to so high temperatures can be attributed to several causes. First, it has been found that the quantity of carbonic acid exhaled by the lungs, and consequently the chemical phenomena of internal combustion that are a source of animal heat, diminish in measure as the external temperature rises. Hence, a conflict which has for result the retardation of the moment at which a living being will tend, without obstacle, to take the temperature of the surrounding medium. On ...

— Scientific American Supplement No. 360, November 25, 1882 • Various

... distances. Such illustrations may be found in electric railways, and where water power can be obtained as the primal source of energy, the cost is not excessive. It is found, however, that even with the most improved forms of mechanism, in electrical construction, the internal combustion ...

— Electricity for Boys • J. S. Zerbe