Supplement to the Steam Engine Catechism

Excerpt from Supplement to the Steam Engine Catechism

The matter in this volume is intended as supplementary to the Catechism, and needs no excuse for its appearance.

The extreme popularity and rapid sale of the Catechism proper warrants the author in putting in the same form, additional material of the same general character.

This volume contains the answers to many questions which were asked by engineers and steam users, and the answers to which do not appear in the Catechism itself.

It refers in many places to the Catechism, and is intended to be used with it.

Particular attention is paid to compound engines, to link motions, to the details of various existing types of steam engines, and to matters concerning setting up, running, adjusting, repairing, and altering particular builds of engines.

There is a probability that another supplementary volume may be issued in the course of a short time.

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