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Excerpt from The Museum of Science and Art, Vol. 5 Gnu. L - l. The steam engine. - 2 Consists of two essential parts. - 3. The boiler. - 4. Material employed in its formation - 5. Feeding apparatus - 6. Importance of keeping the water in the boiler at a proper level. - 7. Wet and dry steam - 8. Priming. 9. Means of ascertaining the level of the water in the boiler. - 10. Self-acting feeders. - 11. Safety valve. - 12. Steam gauge - 13. The furnace - 14. Proper mode of feeding the furnace - 15. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.