Excerpt from How to Run Engines and Boilers: Practical Instruction for Young Engineers and Steam Users
Prefaces have gone out of fashion. They are usually excuses, or explanations, or apologies, or something akin, for having written what follows them. This little book needs no preface, but here is one and a dedication as well, for in this work I have endeavored lo serve young American Engineers who have taken to the business seriously by mentioning a few troubles they are likely to encounter, but it is only mention, for the one thing which can not be imparted is experience. Time, study, and practice alone can give it. No man was ever made an engineer by a book or by rules, but every engineer must know the first principles and traditions of his business. The inexperienced will find a few of them herein.
This little book is dedicated to American Engineers, the men who have always helped me on my way and who have always kept faith with me; who have always held out the right hand of fellowship to me as man and boy, by their sincere friend and well wisher.
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