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Excerpt from Superheat, Superheating, and Their Control During those forty years, while steam-engineering has made progress, it has found its field of usefulness gradually invaded from various points. The gas-engine has made large inroads. Much yet remains to be done towards perfecting the gas - engine until its competition shall become still more keen. The Diesel and other liquid-fuel engines have come into consid crable use. The employment of electrical transmission of power has enabled falls of water to be utilized that have hitherto been impracticable. The thermal efficiency of the gas-producer and gas-engine is superior to that of the steam - boiler. And steam - engine, but the steam - engine is thus far greatly superior, as a machine, to the gas or any other internal-combustion engine. But economy of fuel is so important that every advance in the internal - combustion engine will bring it in a winner in the debatable borderland in which some trivial circumstance will fix the decision for or against any particular type of prime mover. For these and other reasons, then, the steam-engineer must pay intelligent and careful attention to the art and science of superheating. 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.

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