Excerpt from Computations for Marine EnginesThis book presents one phase of the instruction in marine engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is Offered now in hopes that it may be useful to students of marine engine design and to young engineers beginning the practice Of their profession.It gives methods of computing the proper size and strength of the parts Of a marine engine, similar to those in good practice, with special attention to instruction, and perhaps carried to a somewhat greater degree Of refinement.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.