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00001590 |
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Daniel Best's Electric Crude Oil Vapor Engine |
| Description |
"This engine can be operated on either crude oil, distillate, gasoline, or kerosene. It is the cheapest power on earth and is not tied to any kind of oil, but can use any kind that will make gas and is not handicapped by being compelled to use a certain oil." A test with one of our five horse-power crude oil engines, running ten hours on different gas oils showed California crude oil to be most economical: it took 7 1/2 gallons of 40 gravity oil at 5 cents per gallon. It was awarded first premium under a pony brake and meter test at the State Fair, 1891. (PRP Sept. 18 1897, pg. 187). |
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1891 |
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