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THE great importance of the subject of this publication is so generally known, and the want of a practical treatise on the Steam Engine and its various applications is so universally acknowledged, that any apology for its appearance is unnecessary.

The object of the work is fourfold.

First, To form a complete history of the invention of this greatest production of genius, from its origin to its present state of perfection; showing to the statesman and political economist the influence that the adoption of steam powers has exercised upon our national prosperity and advancement during a century past, and the prospect of future advantages to be expected from more extended applications of the same principles.

Second,-To form a correct guide for the instruction of professional students in the practice and theory of making and using Steam Engines. Such students being at present left to form and digest their own crude and imperfect observations, their conclusions are liable, for want of a scientific guide, to be tinctured with many erroneous notions and false reasons, which pass current with the unlettered artizans amongst whom they must of necessity seek their practical knowledge.

Third,—To form a manual which will facilitate the practice of the experienced professional engineer and tend to perfect the practice of those engineers and others, who may be required to employ and apply Steam Engines to various purposes, but who have not had the advantage of instruction in the art of making Steam Engines; and who may, therefore, require much information which is at present only to be acquired in workshops. Many manufacturers, and engineers to public companies, for canals, mines, and waterworks, and many officers of our navy who are beginning to turn their attention to the subject of steam navigation, are thus circumstanced.

Fourth,―To contain a record and brief explanation of all the speculative projects which have been proposed for the improvement of Steam Engines. This will exhibit to mechanical inventors, the various ideas which have been

suggested for that object, and the instruction they may obtain from other parts of the work, together with the history of the circumstances under which the really great inventions have been made, may enable them to produce some farther improvements.

To endeavour to attain those objects is not a light undertaking, and one which the author would willingly have given up to any other Engineer of competent knowledge; but it is well known that such men are two much engaged in active practice, to find time for a literary occupation; and that it is only in the course of an active practice, that opportunities offer for making valuable observations. The author would have been unable to have undertaken such a task, if he had not formed the plan and collected materials for its execution, at his first entrance into life; and it was chiefly in consequence of its becoming known that he had such a plan in view, that he be came personally acquainted with the late Mr. WATT, and with Mr. WOOLF, and acquired from them a full knowledge of the origin and progress of their respective inventions.

At the commencement of his professional studies, more than twenty years ago, the author felt the want of a guide of this kind; and, after carefully studying Doctor Robison's Treatise and M. Prony's Architecture Hydraulique, he determined to preserve notes of all the observations and investigations, by which he should become practically acquainted with the construction and operation of Steam Engines, and their various applications, as materials which might at some future period be arranged to form part of a useful publication; and, although continual professional avocations have long since prevented him from devoting sufficient time to that object, it has never been abandoned.

In the year 1815, the author drew up a descriptive article on the Steam Engine, for Dr. Rees's Cyclopædia; but the plan of that work, and the limited number of engravings, rendered it necessary to avoid details, which must constitute the great value of a practical work. Since the publication of that article in 1816, the want of a correct manual has been still more felt, from the great and increasing extension of the use of steam power, and the author was advised by many of the profession to complete his original project; this he undertook to do in 1820, and the historical part was written, and most of the plates were engraved by the late MR. LOWRY, in the next year; but other engagements have protracted the completion of the technical part until the present time.

This Volume will contain the History of the Invention, and Technical Descriptions of Steam Engines, as they are now made by the best artists, with numerous Engravings and Wood-cuts, and tables of their Dimensions; also, a large collection of Theorems, which the Author has formed during the course of his own practice, for calculating the proportions of the parts of Steam Engines of all dimensions, and for estimating their performance. A Volume, containing a full account of the various modes of applying Steam Engines to Navigation and to Locomotive Carriages, also a Record and brief Description of Speculative Projects, is in preparation.

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