The Project Gutenberg eBook, Maxims and Instructions for the Boiler Room, by N. (Nehemiah) Hawkins

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MAXIMS
AND
INSTRUCTIONS
FOR
THE BOILER ROOM.

This Work is Fraternally inscribed to W. R. Hawkins, R. F. Hawkins and F. P. Hawkins.

RICHARD TREVITHICK.

Maxims and Instructions
FOR
The Boiler Room.

USEFUL TO
Engineers, Firemen & Mechanics,
RELATING TO STEAM GENERATORS, PUMPS, APPLIANCES, STEAM HEATING, PRACTICAL PLUMBING, ETC.

By N. HAWKINS, M. E.,
Honorary Member National Association of Stationary Engineers, Editorial Writer, Author of Hand Book of Calculations for Engineers and Firemen, Etc., Etc.

Comprising Instructions and Suggestions on the Construction, Setting, Control and Management of Various Forms of Steam Boilers; on the Theory and Practical Operation of the Steam Pump; Steam Heating; Practical Plumbing; also Rules for the Safety Valve, Strength of Boilers, Capacity of Pumps, Etc.

THEO. AUDEL & CO., Publishers,
63 FIFTH AVE., Cor. 13th St.,
New York.

Copyrighted
1897—1898—1903
by
Theo, Audel & Co.

PREFACE.

The chief apology for the preparation and issue of these Maxims and Instructions, for the use of Steam users, Engineers and Firemen, is the more than kind reception of Calculations.

But there are other reasons. There is the wholesome desire to benefit the class, with whom, in one way and another, the author has been associated nearly two score years.

The plan followed in this work will be the same as that so generally approved in Calculations; the completed volume will be a work of reference and instruction upon those works set forth in the [title page]. As a work of reference the work will be especially helpful through combined [Index] and Definition [Tables] to be inserted at the close of the book. By the use of these the meaning of every machine, material and performance of the boiler room can be easily found and the “points” of instruction made use of.

This work being issued in parts, now in manuscript, and capable of change or enlargement, the editor will be thankful for healthful suggestions from his professional brethren, before it is put into permanent book form.