Excerpt from The Practical Application of the Slide Valve and Link Motion to Stationary, Portable, Locomotive, and Marine Engines: With New and Simple Methods for Proportioning the Parts Link and Valve Motions has had a phenomenal sale during the past twenty-five years. It has proved itself both a standard authority with Mechanical Engineers and Draughtsmen, and a valued textbook with Colleges and Technical Schools. Its market has not been confined to the United States, but it has found ready sale in Great Britain. It was so favorably considered by the noted journal - "Engineering, of London" - that it closed its critical review of the book with these words: "All the matters we have mentioned are treated with a clearness and absence of unnecessary verbiage, which renders the work a peculiarly valuable one. The Travel Scale only requires to be known to be appreciated. Mr. A. writes so ably on his subject, we wish he had written more." About ten years ago, Julius Springer, of Berlin, published Link and Valve Motions in German under the title: Schieber und Coulissensteurungen, edited by Herr A. Müller, Chief Engineer of the Borsig Locomotive Works. In the present Edition the Author has carefully eliminated all abstruse formulæ, because he considers it absurd to invoke the aid of higher mathematics for the solution of everyday problems in Link and Valve Motion. 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.