Elementary Lessons In Steam Machinery And The Marine Steam Engine

Author : Staff-Engineer J. Langmaid
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330437452
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Elementary Lessons in Steam Machinery and the Marine Steam Engine written by Staff-Engineer J. Langmaid and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Elementary Lessons in Steam Machinery and the Marine Steam Engine: With a Short Description of the Construction of a Battleship, Compiled for the Use of Junior Students of Marine Engineering The following Elementary Lessons in Steam Machinery were prepared for the Naval Cadets in H.M.S. Britannia, and represent a systematic course of simple instruction preparatory to a more thorough study of the whole subject. The syllabus of subjects dealt with is based on the plan adopted by the Science and Art Department. The aim of the earlier lessons is to lay a sound basis of instruction in the elements of construction and mechanism, also in those mechanical details which students are usually expected to learn by workshop experience, and are not found in Steam Engine Text-books. Nothing is stated except the conclusions arrived at by experience, and the simplest examples are given to illustrate the various details of Marine Engines. Untried experiments are not referred to, but the information given is up to date, and obsolete ideas have been as far as possible avoided. The notes on construction of a Battleship will serve as an introduction to the large subject of modern ship construction, treated of more fully in the Text-book of Naval Architecture, which has been prepared by order of the Admiralty. The editor wishes to express his indebtedness to J. T. Corner, Esq., Inspector of Machinery, R.N., Chief Engineer of Portsmouth Dockyard, and to F. J. Sercombe, Esq., Engineer, R.N., for much valuable assistance in preparing this edition. He is aware that the present is a most unfavourable time for reprinting a book dealing with Naval Boilers; but he has done his best to represent the conditions as they now exist. 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.