Excerpt from Preparing for Indication: Practical Hints, the Result of Twenty-Three Years' Experience With the Steam Engine Indicator There is all the greater necessity for this because the existing books upon the steam engine indicator, while tolerably full in their instructions about how to take cards and to read them after being taken, are very meagre in practical directions how to pipe up and hitch on. There are dozens of other possible ways of making the reducing motion and of attaching, but I believe that those which I give are the simplest and give the most correct results; and there is no use complicating matters and confusing the recipient. 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.