Excerpt from The Corliss Engine During this long period of increasing useful ness, it has seen the rise and fall of the most sanguine expectations of many inventors for its honors. Sufficient evidence has been gath ered by steam-users throughout, I may say, the civilized world, as a criterion of its merits and this has been established by facts cover ing economical performance for years, rather than by claims based upon theory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. ...
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Excerpt from The Corliss Engine During this long period of increasing useful ness, it has seen the rise and fall of the most sanguine expectations of many inventors for its honors. Sufficient evidence has been gath ered by steam-users throughout, I may say, the civilized world, as a criterion of its merits and this has been established by facts cover ing economical performance for years, rather than by claims based upon theory. 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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