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Excerpt from Twenty Years With the Indicator: Being a Practical d104book for the Engineer
The steam engine indicator has been an appendage to the steam engine that has been entirely too little understood by the majority of men who follow the profession of steam engineering. Indeed, it has not been many years since the indicator was considered as an especial profession, belonging to a class of men who had styled themselves experts. In many cases our personal contact with these men has persuaded us that they were not only entirely devoid of any cultivation with reference to the application of the indicator, but that they were decidedly deficient in their actual knowledge of steam; while on the other hand we have occasionally come in contact with men who were in every way qualified to give honest judgment as to what they found, what they saw, and to indicate, correct, adjust and advise without any sort of reference to their pocket interest, either direct or remote. Many of these men persuaded themselves that the working engineer was only a man to shovel coal or put on the grease, oil or slush, as the case might be, and that the expert should be called in whenever anything existed that was not entirely right or up to the mark. Without wishing to criticize any, we may premise that our own efforts, dating back to 1866, have been in the direction of instructing the working engineer to the greatest possible extent and without any reserve. The attempts of some of these men to ape the experts have been amusing, but the very large majority of them have accepted the indicator as an attachment to the engine, without any of the mystery, the secrecy, or other generally supposed requirements of its adoption. 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.
