A Short Treatise on the Compound Steam Engine

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Excerpt from A Short Treatise on the Compound Steam Engine: With a New Method of Finding the Relative Areas of the Two Cylinders, Illustrated With Diagrams, Tables, EtcAs the compound engine is being now so universally adopted in the Mercantile Ma rine Service, and a knowledge of its princi ples absolutely necessary by those engaged in attending it, we will, in the following remarks, explain these principles in as sim ple a manner as possible, and institute a comparison between the respective merits of the single-cylinder expansive condens ing engine and the compound engine.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.