This vintage book contains a handbook of useful information originally
designed for inspectors, surveyors, engineers, factory foremen, and the
general steam-using public. With information on everything from
repairing boilers to general advice, this profusely illustrated volume
will appeal to modern readers with a practical interest in steam power
and collectors of vintage literature of this ilk. Contents include:
"Accidents Through Bad Workmanship", "Angle-Iron Rings", "Areas of
Circles", "Cambers, Templates of", "Care of Boilers", "Caulking",
"Circumferences of Circles", "Iron Rings", "Cones, Templates of",
"Countersinking", "Curves of Steam Chests", "Cylindrical Boilers",
"Decimal Equivalents to the Divisions of an Inch", et cetera. Many
vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are
republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern edition complete
with a specially commissioned new introduction on metalworking.