Author: Telford Petrie

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-19

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780484141826

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Excerpt from Modern Practice in Heat Engines A resident engineer at one of our experimental sea stations during the war, who was an expert in what Kipling once called the Bridge dam-girder line, was present at a committee meeting when the silent propulsion of ships was under discussion. He said: Gentlemen, at our station experiments are being carried out on a new type of engine, which is so silent that it is called the still engine.' If this book ever reaches that engineer's library, I shall feel that it has not been written altogether in vain. I may even go further and express the hope that the steam section will interest the internal-combustion engineer, and vice vend. 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.

Download or read book Modern Practice in Heat Engines (Classic Reprint) written by Telford Petrie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Modern Practice in Heat Engines A resident engineer at one of our experimental sea stations during the war, who was an expert in what Kipling once called the Bridge dam-girder line, was present at a committee meeting when the silent propulsion of ships was under discussion. He said: Gentlemen, at our station experiments are being carried out on a new type of engine, which is so silent that it is called the still engine.' If this book ever reaches that engineer's library, I shall feel that it has not been written altogether in vain. I may even go further and express the hope that the steam section will interest the internal-combustion engineer, and vice vend. 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.