Dvigateli vnutrennego sgoraniia. Opisanie ikh tipov i glavneishikh chastei v voprosakh i otvetakh (Internal Combustion Engines. Description of Their Types and Main Components in a Question-Answer Format)

Moskva/Leningrad (Moscow/St. Petersburg): Gosudarstvennoe izdatelstvo, 1928. Second Edition. Very good. Second edition, 1 of 5000 copies; 7 3/4 x 5 1/4; pp. [1], 4-168; olive wraps, with black and green illustrations; chips with loss of paper to tips of spine; lacking ffep, else complete; a bit of wear to ccorners and edges; illustrated with 102 drawings and photographic images; overall in very good condition.Although Russia had a long history of building complex machinery, going back to the 18th century, the first Russian-built car with an internal combustion engine was not manufactured until 1896 and, prior to the Soviet Era, the country practically had no automotive industry. In the years following the October Revolution, under Stalin's great pressure for industrialization, massive factories were constructed in several big cities and the need for capable, educated mechanics increased dramatically. The current book, one of the earliest on the subject, described and illustrated in details the parts of the various internal combustion engines and their main principles of operation, with part of it in an easy-to-understand question-answer format. Not in OCLC or in the trade (as of December 2018).