Handbook Of The Steam Engine Containing All The Rules Required For The Right Construction And Management Of Engines Of Every Class Constituting A Key To The Catechism Of The Steam Engine Illustrated Etc

Author : John Bourne
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330129548
Total Pages : 741 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of the Steam-Engine written by John Bourne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Handbook of the Steam-Engine: Containing All the Rules Required for the Right Construction of Engines Class, With the Easy Arithmetical Solution of Those Rules, Constituting a Key to the 'Catechism of the Steam-Engine;' The present work was consequently begun, and part of it was printed, several years ago, but the pressure of other pursuits has heretofore hindered its completion; and in now sending it forth I do so with the conviction that I have spared no pains to render it as useful as possible to the large class of imperfectly educated engineers to whom it is chiefly addressed. It is with the view of enabling its expositions to be followed by those even of the most slender scientific attainments that I have introduced the first chapter, explaining those several processes of arithmetic by which engineering computations are worked out. For although there is no want of manuals imparting this information, there are none of them, that I know of, which have special reference to the wants of the engineer; and none of them deal with those associations, by way of illustration, with which the engineer is most familiar. Indeed, engineers, like sailors and other large classes of men, have an order of ideas, and, to some extent, even a species of phraseology of their own; and the avenues to their apprehension are most readily opened by illustrations based upon their existing knowledge and experience, such as an engineer can best supply. 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.