Excerpt from The Working Engineer's Practical Guide to the Management of the Steam Engine With confidence the Author submits the present work, "The Working Engineer's Practical Guide," to the judgment of those whose duty it is to superintend the working of the Steam Engine and Boiler, in their many and varied forms and applications. The many encomiums the Author has received from parties who have benefited from following the instructions and advice contained in his larger work, "The Working of the Steam Engine Explained by the Use of the Indicator," - (four large Editions of which have been published, and rapidly disposed of,) - and the very general desire he has heard expressed that portions of the matter composing that work should be published in a form and at a price more accessible to the working Engineer, has induced him to prepare the work now presented, in the confident belief that it will be found to be of practical advantage to those for whose information and use it has been designed. The aim of the Author, in all he has published, has been, by means of homely language, accompanied with familiar and practical illustration, to instruct those who are entrusted with the care and management of Steam Engines, so that they may ascertain with certainty whether they are deriving the greatest amount of practical advantage from the several quantities of impulsive power they may generate and apply. Interspersed with these instructions he has given hints and examples, intended to show how practical improvements in the working of most Steam Engines may be effected at little cost, to the great saving of fuel, and the steady application of the motive power - all these being points of manifest importance to the proprietors of Steam Engines, and of advantage to the practical Engineer. The conclusions recorded in this work have resulted from observation and study, not in the closet, but in company with the Steam Engine, in its various stages and alterations: and although the mere theorist, or the scientific literary writer, may object to the plain and simple manner in which the different topics descanted on are treated, the Author is assured, from the difficulties which in the early period of his own experience he himself had to contend with and overcome, that his plan of procedure is the best that he could possibly have adopted for the accomplishment of his main object in undertaking the work - the instruction of the practical working Engineer. 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.