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Excerpt from A Short Treatise on the Compound Steam Engine: With a New Method of Finding the Relative Areas of the Two Cylinders; Illustrated With Diagrams, Tables, Etc As the compound engine is being now so universally adopted in the Mercantile Ma rine Service, and a knowledge of its princi ples absolutely necessary by those engaged in attending it, we will, in the following remarks, explain these principles in as sim ple a manner as possible, and institute a comparison between the respective merits of the single-cylinder expansive condens ing engine and the compound engine. 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.