Excerpt from An Elementary Manual of the Steam Engine: Containing Also a Chapter on the Theory, Construction and Operation of Internal Combustion Engines for the Operating Engineer The author has for some years been engaged as an instructor in engineering. He has enjoyed intimate acquaintance with students and with young men engaged in the actual Operation of steam plants. Many students of steam engineering, while they may have had excel lent training in mathematics and general science, are yet so immature that they do not readily make practical application of their general knowledge; and the aver age Operating man, despite his experience, realizes his lack of adequate grasp of fundamental principles a lack which hampers his advancement. To help both classes of men, teaching them to think and to reason, they must be taught the subject in a manner which may supplement their present partial knowledge. 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.