CHARLES T. PORTER

Honorary Member of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Author of “A Treatise on the Richards Steam-engine Indicator
and the Development and Application of Force in the
Steam-engine,” 1874; “Mechanics and Faith,” 1885

REVISED AND ENLARGED

FIRST EDITION
FIRST THOUSAND

NEW YORK
JOHN WILEY & SONS
London: CHAPMAN & HALL, Limited
1908

Copyright 1908
BY
CHARLES T. PORTER

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
TO THE MEMORY OF
MY FATHER AND MOTHER

My Father