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Excerpt from Boilers and Furnaces Considered in Their Relations to Steam Engineering
The limitations imposed as to the size of the completed volume pre vented the introduction of subject matter or illustrations relating to the early history and development of steam boilers, as well as illustrated reference to some of the more recent examples of design and construo tion. This increase in subject matter could only have been accomplished by adding to the number of pages or by reduction in the size of the en gravings. N 0 doubt many of the latter could have been slightly reduced without detriment, but it was thought that a fewer number of clearly executed fundamental details would be Of more value to a designer or student than a larger number wanting in proper mechanical execution or clearness of detail. After all, it will be seen that the omission is not so much in types of boilers, to which considerable space has been given, as it has been in the variations of these types.
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