How To Build Up Furnace Efficiency

Author : Jos; W. Hays
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332214600
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book How to Build Up Furnace Efficiency written by Jos; W. Hays and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from How to Build Up Furnace Efficiency: A Hand-Book of Fuel Economy, Including a Few Snorts About Industrial Efficiency and Other Things, Written for the Men Who Pay for the Fuel and the Men Who Burn It In the early part of 1908 the author tendered a manuscript to the editor of an engineering magazine. It was returned with the following comment: "Your paper is too technical. We get more technical articles than we can use. We want practical articles written in a popular way arid we can t get them. Cut out the "high-brow" stuff and let us have something that the great mass of our readers can peruse with interest and profit." The result of this advice was the first edition of "How to Build Up Furnace Efficiency," published in 1908. It was brought out with many misgivings. Was it really possible to great the rather technical subject of combustion in a really popular way - something that had never been attempted by anyone before? Would the public want such a treatment even it the treatment were successful? These questions were not long in being answered. The first edition was exhausted, almost as soon as the announcement of publication was made. Succeeding and larger editions Hollowed the first one. The present edition, counting the foreign editions, is the fifteenth complete publication, and translations are now being made for other foreign editions. Counting all publications, the book has now reached its ninety-fifth thousand. Many things were omitted in the previous editions that should have been said and some things were said that might have been omitted. In the present edition, sufficient charts, diagrams and illustrations are used to make clear some of the things that it is hard to explain in the printed page. Certain instruments and apparatus designed by the author are illustrated. In showing these it Is not intended to disparage other apparatus of like character. The illustrations are given for the sole purpose of showing the "tools" that the author has used in prosecuting combustion studies and in working out specific furnace efficiency problems In many plants. Cartoons have been used rather liberally in this edition and it is hoped that they will serve to emphasize some of the arguments that the author has tried to make. It is in no spirit of self-flattery that the author refers to the past success of his book. If credit is due anyone it belongs to the editor who offered the advice above quoted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.