Excerpt from A Treatise on the Steam Engine: From the Seventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica But the alterations and additions are too numerous and many of them too trivial to be all noticed here. The foot notes, however, after page 1 7 are all new. Perhaps it is still necessary to crave the same indulgence from the reader as is done in the preface to the first edition. It may be pr0per to add that various other particulars connected with the subject will be found in the articles Steam and Steam Navigation; which ...
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Excerpt from A Treatise on the Steam Engine: From the Seventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica But the alterations and additions are too numerous and many of them too trivial to be all noticed here. The foot notes, however, after page 1 7 are all new. Perhaps it is still necessary to crave the same indulgence from the reader as is done in the preface to the first edition. It may be pr0per to add that various other particulars connected with the subject will be found in the articles Steam and Steam Navigation; which, besides forming parts of the Encyclopedia, have been published toge ther in a separate volume. The like may be said of the article Railways. It is also principally in these depart ments that the more recent improvements connected with steam have taken place. Descriptions of the latest will be found in the scientific journals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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