The practical engineer
Subtitle: a treatise on the subject of modeling, constructing and running steam engines. Containing, also, directions in regard to the various ... of machinery connected with steam power ...
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9781418188337
Subjects: History / United States / General
First sentence: BOILERS are of almost every kind and description, shape and size, the purpose of generating steam, for running low and high pressure engines, and may be classed under the names of upright, horizontal, revolving, circular, flat, elliptic, cylinder, slide, tubular and flued boilers.