Engineer eBooks

Marine Engineering: A Text-Book. E-book. Formato PDF Engineer   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The whole of the book has again been rewritten and revised, and, with a large number of new illustrations, forms a complete text-book on the construction and working of marine engines and boilers. The number of chapters has been increased from twenty-five to thirty-five, and the various chapters grouped into ten sections. The introductory section is developed so as to cover the syllabus used in the naval training establishments. Very little space is devoted to obsolescent types of boilers and machinery; the thermo-dynamics of the working substance is more fully developed so as to cover the ordinary requirements of the sea-going engineer; the auxiliary section includes new matter on steering and capstan gear, air compressors, hydraulic machinery, refrigerators, electrical and other machinery, as well as a chapter on water-tight, pumping, and fire systems; care and management comes in for a larger share of attention due to recent progress, and also includes a chapter on the duties of the Engineer of the Watch. In the last section, chapters are devoted to the marine steam turbine and to the internal combustion engine.Every effort has been made to explain matters in as simple a manner as possible, but it should always be remembered that the practical application of mathematics is essential to the design and economical working of marine machinery.

Recollections of Mexico: And the Battle of Buena Vista, Feb; 22 and 23, 1847. E-book. Formato PDF Engineer Officer   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

States, at Bardstown Ky., with the son of Henry Clay, a lieut.-colonel of Gen. Wool's forces at the time that command passed through Parras, en route to Saltillo The true and cor dial spanish-mexican embrace was given to the colonel by Don Manuel, and a hearty welcome to our troops and our officers could hardly restrain him from turning the whole army into his wine-cellars in his excess of hospitable feeling He, with many of the best Mexicans, had an intense hatred of the tyranny of Santa Ana, and held himself ready for resistance to him. As instances of the wealth at com mand of these ricos in that country, I would mention, that we were told of one gentleman, who, when Santa Ana's army started from San Luis to cross the arid desert to attack us, had presented five thousand mules to that general to transport water for the troops; and of another, who had mounted a whole regiment of lancers on horses of one color, and that no common color for that animal, nan keen, as a present to his country.