The Working Engineer's Practical Guide to the Management of the Steam Engine and Boiler: With Rules and Instructions for Valve Setting (Classic Reprint)

Author submits the present work, THE WORKING ENGINEERS PRACTICAL GUIDE, to the judgment of those whose duty it is to superintend the working of theS team Engine and Boiler, in their many and varied forms and applications. The many encomiums the Author has received from parties who have benefited from following the instructions and advice contained in his larger work, THE WORKING OF THE STEAM ENGINE EXPLAINED BY THE USE OF THE INDICATOR, (four large Editions of which have been published, and rapidly disposed of,) and the very general desire he has heard expressed that portions of the matter composing that work should be published in a form and at a price more accessible to the working Engineer, has induced him to prepare the work now presented, in the confident belief that it will be found to be of practical advantage to those for whose information and use it has been designed. The aim of the A uthor, in all he has published, has been, by means of homely language, accompanied with familiar and practical illustration, to instruct those who are entrusted with the care and management of Steam Engines, so that they may ascertain with certainty whether they are deriving the greatest amount of practical advantage from the several quantities of impulsive power they may generate and apply. Interspersed with these instructions he has given hints and examples, intended to show how practical improvements in the working of mostS team Engines may be effected at little cost, to the great saving of fuel, and the steady application of the motive power all these being points of manifest importance to the proprietors of Steam Engines, and of advantage to the practical Engineer. The conclusions recorded in this work have resulted from observation and study, not in the closet, but in company with theS team Engine, in its various stages and alterations :and although the mere theo
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