Excerpt from The Steam Engine Considered as a Thermodynamic Machine: A Treatise on the of Steam Engines; Illustrated by Diagrams, Tables, and Examples From Practice The present volume originated in some rough notes on the thermo dynamics of the steam engine, drawn up as long ago as 1871, for the use of students of engineering and others interested in steam engines. These notes, having proved useful, were expanded into a complete treatise published in December 1877, which was intended to serve as an introduction to applied thermodynamics, While at the same time an attempt was made to study, more completely than had hitherto been done, the process of the conversion of heat into work in steam engines. 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.