The High-Pressure Steam Engine - An Exposition of Its Comparative Merits, and an Essay Towards an Improved System of Construction, Adapted Especially to Secure Safety and Economy in Its Use #251062

It must startle English Engineers not a little to be told that the high-pressure engine is both safer and more economical in its use than the low-pressure condensing one; yet such is the declaration of our Author, who, according to his own showing, appears to have, devoted more attention to the high — pressure engine than perhaps any other Engineer now in practice. On this account, if for no other, the work now laid before the public is worthy Of a careful and impartial examination.