The Significance Of Drafts In Steam Boiler Practice Classic Reprint

Author : Charles Augustus Smith
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ISBN 13 : 9781332520138
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Steam Making, Or Boiler Practice (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Augustus Smith and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Steam Making, or Boiler Practice It is believed that some knowledge of the circumstances attending the publication of this work, "Steam Making," as well as its companion volume, Steam Using, will be of interest to the reader. The lamented author, Prof. Chas. A. Smith, had arranged with the American Engineer for the publication of the two works. While the first, "Steam Making," was going through the columns of the Engineer, Professor Smith died, early in 1884, leaving also to the care of the Engineer the recently completed manuscript of "Steam Using." To all who are familiar with the circumstances under which the books were written - the author suffering from a mortal illness and struggling against death to thus round out his life work, only giving up to die on their completion - will appreciate and value the more highly the broad and active experience thus crystallized. To Mr. John W. Weston, so long connected with this journal, and personally familiar with the author and his writings, has been delegated the pleasant duty of conducting these works through the various stages of bookmaking, with the result now presented. The task has not been without its difficulties, the most serious, perhaps, being the loss of the invaluable assistance of their author in the work of revision of matter and proof. It has been the aim, as far as possible, to preserve the exact style of the author, and it is believed that the facts and features presented in both books, the heirlooms of an admirable man, acknowledged to be profound and exact in his particular lines of work, will be held to cover whatever defects of minor importance may be encountered. 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.