Excerpt from Boiler Making for Boiler Makers: A Practical Treatise on Work in the ShopShould. He being as kind as he was experienced, generously gave me the required information for that boiler. This of course not being sufficient for my wants, I set about looking for works on the subject. My disappointment was great, indeed, to find that among the very few books on the subject, there were absolutely none which gave the information that I desired. Such as were complete buried themselves over neck and ears in abstruse formulas which it is doubtful if the authors could solve after a month's absence from the work.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.