Excerpt from The Cadet Engineer, or Steam for the StudentIN this little work we have designedly avoided deep theoretical research, and have aimed rather to supply practical information.Theoretical works can be obtained in profusion, but treatises on the practical part of engineering are more rare. It is to be hoped that the idea of intro dacing familiar topics, and things that (in common parlance) everybody knows, will meet with favor.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.