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Excerpt from The High-Pressure Steam Engine: An Exposition of Its Comparative Merits, and an Essay Towards an Improved System of Construction, Adapted Especially to Secure Safety and Economy in Its Use It must startle English Engineers not a little to be told that the high-pressure engine is both safer and more economical in its use than the low-pressure condensing one; yet such is the declaration of our Author, who, according to his own showing, appears to have, devoted more attention to the high - pressure engine than perhaps any other Engineer now in practice. On this account, if for no other, the work now laid before the public is worthy Of a careful and impartial examination. 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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