Farm Engines and How to Run Them: The Young Engineer's Guide, a Simple, Practical Hand Book, for Experts as Well as for Amateurs, Fully Describing Eve

Excerpt from Farm Engines and How to Run Them: The Young Engineer's Guide, a Simple, Practical Hand Book, for Experts as Well as for Amateurs, Fully Describing Every Part of an Engine and Boiler, Giving Full Directions for the Safe and Economical Management of Both; Also, Several Hundred Questions AndThe professional engineer, in writing a book for young engineers, is likely to forget that the novice is unfamiliar with many terms which are like daily bread to him. The present writers have tried to avoid that pitfall, and to define each term as it naturally needs definition. More over, the description of parts and the definitions of terms have preceded any suggestions on Operation, the authors believing that the young engineer should become thor oughly familiar with his engine and its manner of work ing, before he is told what is best to do and not to do. If he is forced on too fast he is likely to get mixed. The test questions at the end of Chapter III. Will show how perfectly the preceding pages have been mastered, and the student is not ready to go on till he can answer all these questions readily.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.