Excerpt from The Steam Engine and Gas and Oil Engines: A Book for the Use of Students Who Have Time to Make Experiments and Calculations If I am looked upon as a person who wishes to give results to be used in faith by my pupils. It will be very easy to find many faults in this book. But I beg to say that I occupy a very different position. I aim, throughout, at showing a student how he, himself, may attack problems which are, as yet, only partially solved, and if I give some of my own speculations, it is only when they are suggestive and likely to incite a student to go on with the study through experiment and calculation along lines which seem to me good ones. 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.