Excerpt from Mine Drainage: Being a Complete and Practical Treatise on Direct-Acting Underground Steam Pumping Machinery

To these younger products of the engineer's skill, the surface engine may relegate much of its work, or it may engage them as auxiliaries, for which their much greater lightness of structure, their ready portability, and the celerity with which they may be set to work, make them so well adapted.

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