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Excerpt from Steam-Boiler Construction: A Practical Handbook for Engineers, Boiler-Makers, and Steam-Users, Containing a Large Collection of Rules and Data Relating to Recent Practice in the Design, Construction, and Working of All Kinds of Stationary, Locomotive, and Marine Steam-Boilers In the present volume, the Author has endeavoured to present in a concise, condensed, and readily accessible form, the latest and most useful information on steam boilers, comprising the results of numerous investigations and researches in this particular branch of engineering. Much useful information is given on heat combustion the composition, calorific power, and evaporative power, of fuels; chimneys for steam-boilers; evaporation; the properties of steam and the transmission of heat. 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.