Excerpt from An Elementary Treatise on the Combustion of Coal and the Prevention of Smoke, Chemically and Practically Considered: With an Appendix, Containing the Report of the Newcastle Steam Coal, and the Adjudication of the Premium of ???500 Esme much interested in the improvement of steam vessels, from my connection with several steam navi ption companies, and having had a longer and extended experience in the details of their building and equipping than, perhaps, any individual director of a steam company in the ...
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Excerpt from An Elementary Treatise on the Combustion of Coal and the Prevention of Smoke, Chemically and Practically Considered: With an Appendix, Containing the Report of the Newcastle Steam Coal, and the Adjudication of the Premium of ???500 Esme much interested in the improvement of steam vessels, from my connection with several steam navi ption companies, and having had a longer and extended experience in the details of their building and equipping than, perhaps, any individual director of a steam company in the kingdom, my attention has been uninterruptedly given to the subject since the year 1823, when I first established a steam company, and undertook to have the first steam-vessel constructed capable of maintaining a commercial intercourse across the Irish Channel, during the winter months, and which, till then, had been considered impracticable. 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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Good. New Edition, Corrected. c.1858. Limp cloth, paper spine and cover labels. 8vo. 252pp. + 12pp. publisher's list in rear. Good. Chipping with some loss to spine and cover labels, light loss to cloth at base of spine, soiling to rear cover, insect damage to pp.9-12 of publisher's list.
