Practical Marine Engineering for Marine Engineers and Students

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Excerpt from Practical Marine Engineering for Marine Engineers and Students: With Aids for Applicants for Marine Engineers' Licenses The purpose of the author in the preparation of this work has been to provide help for the operative or practical marine engineer, either for the man who has already entered the profession, but who may wish to perfect himself more fully in many branches of the subject, or for the applicant for the lowest round of the ladder, or for the young man whose attention is first turning to this field, and who may wish some simple and fairly complete presentation of the subject from the practical standpoint. The treatment of the subject throughout has thus been with a view to simplicity, but without undue sacrifice of generality or exactness of statement. It has been the desire of the author to bring the subject, so far as treated in the present work, within the grasp of those who have not had the advantages of higher mathematical and engineering education, but who may wish, nevertheless, to fit themselves for positions of honor and responsibility in the field of operative marine engineering. With this end in view only such parts of the general field of engineering have been included as are of special interest to the practical marine engineer. On these topics, however, the attempt has been made to give the largest amount of useful information in the simplest and most compact form. In the marine field itself likewise, selection has been necessary, and many interesting parts of the subject have been omitted or briefly referred to in order to give more room for the practical side of the subject. Thus the book does not treat of the designing of marine machinery except in an incidental way. For the operative engineer the topics of greater importance are construction, operation, management and care. 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.