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POLITICAL
SCIENCE
for Civil Services Main Examination
About the Author
N D Arora
Formerly of PGDAV College
(University of Delhi)
New Delhi
Mc
Graw
Hill
Seer
McGraw Hill Education (India) Private Limited
NEW DELHI
44, India and the Global South (Africa and Latin America)
Africa: Pre-Colonial, Colonial and Post-Colonial
Latin America: Colonial and Post-Colonial Era
India-Africa Relations
India-Latin America Relations
India, WTO and NIEO
Practice Questions
45. India and the Global Centres of Powers (USA, EU, Japan,
China, Russia, France, etc.)
Relations between India and the United States
India and European Union (EU) Relations
India-Japan Trade Relations
India-China Relations
Sino-Indian War
Indo-Russia Relations
India-France Relations
Relations between India and other Countries
Practice Questions
I. INTRODUCTION
uman beings are different from all other living
creatures. The other living creatures depend, for
most part of their life and living, on conditions not
made by them, and hence, do but little in changing them
through their efforts. Human beings too, though, find
themselves in a situation not made by them but do or can at
least do a lot in changing the atmosphere they live in. This
was what Marx meant when he said that man is both the
product of history as well as the maker of history. Indeed,
there were times when human beings, like all other creatures,
lived at the mercy of nature and developed in accordance
with the law of natural evolution and as such, were powerless
to make changes. But as they developed, they became
conscious of their environment and set themselves to explain
and plan modifications and improvements. Human beings,
due to their more developed mental faculties, were able to do
much more than the other living creatures who remained, and
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time the crank of the grindstone must have been turning because the
bullet and the crank are fastened together, and therefore, instead of
traveling through the air, the bullet has used up its energy in turning
the grindstone. When you get a grindstone started it is rather hard to
stop, isn’t it? And if you didn’t stop it, it would keep on turning
around, wouldn’t it? If this is true, we might as well let it clean the
cannon. As the hole “I” is connected with the gas tank, we cannot let
it force the burnt gas out there, can we? We will therefore pull out the
plug “J” in the hole “E” just as the bullet reaches the point “K” so that
in coming back it will force the burnt gases and smoke out through
the hole “E.” Now we are all ready to start over again; the cannon
has been cleaned out, and the bullet still being fastened to the
grindstone, which is turning, as a result of the explosion, would
immediately begin starting out on another outward stroke. If we put
in the plug “J” again and pull out the plug “L,” the bullet or piston as
we might call it now, will suck in another charge of gas.
Fig. 7—Grinding a valve.
Fig. 8—A section of a Cylinder
showing location of various parts—
end view.
You can see that if you had two boys, one of them to pull out the
plugs, and another to fire the charge you could keep the gun firing
steadily, and run the grindstone. After you have done this for a while
you will get tired of taking out the plugs and putting them in, and
standing there with a match lit all the time, and you would wish there
was some way to make the grindstone, which was running, do all
this for you. This is exactly what happened to some of the old
engineers, and so they set about trying to accomplish this result.
They succeeded in rigging a piece of machinery that would open and
close these holes automatically, and with the introduction of
electricity they also devised a way whereby the charge could be
ignited by an electric spark instead of a match. The plugs which
cover the holes, they called valves and the plug which contained the
electric wires, used for firing the gas, they called a spark plug.
Now let us see what we have learned in this chapter. We have
found that it takes four strokes to explode one charge of gas
1. Suction stroke, during which the gas is sucked into the barrel
of the cannon, or cylinder as it is called.
2. The compression stroke, during which the gas is compressed
so that it will burn easier.
3. The explosive stroke, or working stroke, called so on account
of the fact that the explosive force of the gas is used to turn the
wheel.
4. The cleansing, or exhaust stroke, during which the burnt gas
and smoke is forced out of the barrel.
For this reason, a gas engine which works on this principle is
called a Four-Stroke Cycle Engine. It requires four strokes to
complete the entire operation and bring it back to the beginning
ready to start over again.
THE CYLINDER
So far we have confined ourselves to the parts of a cannon, but
now that we are going to take up the study of the motor in its details
let us call them by their regular names. The barrel of the cannon we
will call a cylinder. In an actual motor a cylinder is made out of cast
iron, carefully bored out inside, so that the hole is perfectly round,
and the sides of the wall as smooth as possible.
Fig. 9.
Now let us take a section of a valve and see how it is made up.
You will notice first the little plug “A” which covers the hole in the
cylinder; it is tapered very much like a glass stopper in a bottle for
the reason that in this form it is easier to fit it to the opening; it can be
“ground in” in the same way that a glass stopper can, in order to
make an air-tight fit. “B” is a rod known as the valve stem, and is
simply a round piece of steel fastened to the valve plug “A.” “S” is a
valve spring which holds the valve down into the cylinder wall, or
valve-seat, as it is called. In order to open these valves you can see
that all that is necessary for you to do is to push up on the valve
stem “B.” This will raise the valve “A” away from its seat into the
position shown by the dotted lines, leaving a space all around
through which the gas may enter or leave. In an actual motor,
however, little irregular pieces of steel, cut out in general shape
shown in Fig. 14 perform the operation of raising the valve.
Fig. 14 shows two such valves, the left hand one opening, and
the right hand one closed. The extreme left hand view shows the
way they would look if viewed from the end. It also gives you the
names of all the parts.
Fig. 7 shows how the valves are “ground in.” The way you do it is
to take the valve out, and coat it with very fine emery dust and oil,
and then put it back in place leaving off the spring, fit a wrench to it
on top as shown in the picture and twirl it around as you would a
glass stopper in a bottle until it is perfectly air-tight, after which the
valve should be removed and both it and the valve seat carefully
wiped off so that none of the emery will get into the cylinder or other
working parts of the engine and cause them to be cut.
There are several different ways of making valves and several
places to put them so that you must not always expect to find them
in the same place. Their action is the same, however, no matter
where they are situated or how they are operated, and I think with a
little examination and study you will always be able to find them and
understand how they work in any engine.
THE PISTON
The piston forms, as you will recall, the bullet in the cannon,
which instead of leaving the barrel, was made to travel back and
forth inside of the cylinder under the action of the explosive gas.
Owing to the fact that a solid piece of iron would be very heavy and
would get very warm, the real piston used in a motor is made hollow
so that it is merely a shell. Instead of fastening the rod to the end of
it, a small rod, called the piston pin is in the center of it, and to this
the connecting rod is connected. Fig. 16 shows a section of the
piston. You will notice that the piston pin is kept from sliding
sideways by a bolt that is screwed into it.
In order to make sure that the amount of gasoline flowing out of the
gasoline jet shall be just the right amount at all times it is necessary
to provide a little gasoline tank, which forms a part of the carburetor
casting itself, which is known as a float chamber, so that the amount
of gasoline in the main tank will not affect the amount discharged at
the nozzle. You can see why this is necessary if you think of a water
tank or a dam. If the water was almost up to the top of the dam and
you should bore a hole through the wall somewhere near the bottom,
the water would flow out faster than if the water was low. By putting
this little gasoline tank in the carburetor itself and keeping a certain
height of gasoline in this smaller reservoir, which always
automatically shuts off the supply at the right time, you can make the
pressure, and therefore the flow of the liquid, always the same. The
illustration will show this plainly. For instance, when the gasoline gets
low the little float will gradually drop down until the ball on the end of
the float stem will open the valve in the gasoline pipe. The gasoline
will then flow in from the tank until the proper amount has filled the
float chamber and caused the float to bob up to its former position,
carrying the ball, which closes the gasoline off, up with it. By this
means the requisite amount of gasoline is always kept in the float
chamber.
The amount of air entering the mixing chamber is controlled by
changing the size of the hole through which the air enters and the
quantity of gasoline admitted is regulated by means of a needle
valve in the gasoline pipe.
Although many carburetors, in fact most of them, do not look like
this drawing, yet their action is the same, and by careful study you
will find that the same principles enter into their construction. Fig. 22
shows an actual sectional drawing of a carburetor used on a four-
cylinder motor. In this particular carburetor, however, the float
chamber and float surround the mixing chamber, and the float valve,
instead of being directly under the float, is at the right hand side and
is operated by means of a lever. The needle valve, which is the little
round rod having a “T” handle, running up through the center of the
mixing chamber, controls the amount of gasoline flowing from the
gasoline chamber to the nozzle. The air comes up through the
bottom and around the gasoline jet. At the left you will notice a small
valve which opens downward, which you do not find on the other
carburetor. It is known as an auxiliary air valve and allows a certain
amount of air to be added to the mixture, a small quantity of which is
sometimes needed to keep the mixture just right. The throttle valve,
which looks like a damper in a stovepipe and which controls the
amount of gasoline vapor going in to the engine, will be seen in the
upper pipe.
Fig. 22—A Typical Four-cylinder
Carburetor.