Excerpt from Friction and Lubrication: Determinations of the Laws and Coefficients of Friction by New Methods and With New Apparatus The lectures from which the following monograph is condensed, have grown out of an attempt to comply with the request of the Committee of the Master Car-builders Association to present the well-known facts, and others that had been determined by the lecturer relating to the subject, in a lecture at the rooms of that association in New York, December 20th, 1877. 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.