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Subtitled, "Its Construction and Management A Practical Manual for Owners and Users of Steam Engines Generally".

A reprint of a book published in 1911 at the heyday of portable engine construction.

Chapters include:

• The Evolution of the Portable Steam Engine
• The Portable Steam Engines of To-Day
• Some Standard Types of Single Cylinder Engines
• The Compound Portable Engine
• Some Special Types of Portable Engines
• Practical Hints on Use and Management
• The Slide-Valve and its Action
• The Index Diagram

Some of the makers that are covered include:

• Trevithick
• Tuxford
• Ransomes
• Dean
• Cambridge
• Hornsby
• Bach
• Garrett
• Clayton
• Robey
• Marshall
• Brown & May
• Clayton & Shuttleworth
• Davey Paxman
• Wm. Foster.

The book covers the theory and design of steam engines with reference to valves gear setting and indicator diagrams.

Code No. 005033, 168 pages, ISBN 1857610679, $37.00

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