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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. Many admirable papers on underground pumping engines have appeared in the journals and transactions of the engi neering societies from time to time, but in this scattered state they are obviously only accessible to a very limited number of persons. Moreover, the high price of some of the journals containing these papers, and the trouble and perhaps impossibility of bringing together such of these isolated papers as might be required, would prevent the general reader availing himself of them. Many of these papers are the production of promoters of the engines to which they refer. 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.
