Download or read book A Manual of the Steam Engine written by William John Macquorn Rankine and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Manual of the Steam Engine: And Other Prime Movers Two improvements made by Savery on his engine are not shown in the figure: a second receiver, similar to a, and standing alongside of it, to be filled and emptied alternately with a, so as to keep up a continuous stream of water; and an auxiliary boiler, or heating vessel, in which water was heated before being supplied to the principal boiler j; and from which the water was forced into f by the pressure of steam when required. 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.