Ebook A Manual of Steam-Boilers

The following treatise on the steam boiler, its design, construction, and operation, is the outcome of an attempt to meet a demand which has been repeatedly made for a fairly complete, systematic, and scientific, yet "practical," manual. It has been intended to work to a plan that should be sufficiently comprehensive to meet the wants of the engineer in his office, and yet so rigidly systematic as to be suitable for use as a text-book in schools of engineering. It has been the endeavor to incorporate the elements of the subject just so far as they are needed in preparing the way for the work of the designer, the builder, and the manager of steam-boilers; while also amply complete and logical to permit the use of the book in the instruction of the student in applied science. It was not expected that it would be found practicable to make a manual of this kind absolutely complete as a workshop treatise to be used by the boiler-maker - a trade manual; but it was hoped that it might, within these limits, be made fairly satisfactory to the engineer engaged in designing.

The plan of the work is as follows: Beginning with an historical and descriptive introduction, in which are traced the various developments of the apparatus used by the engineers of the time of Watt and earlier, and by his successors, and the progress made since his time to date, the existing standard forms of boiler are described and classified, and their special adaptations indicated.