Excerpt from The High-Pressure Steam Engine: An Exposition of Its Comparative Merits, and an Essay Towards an Improved System of Construction, Adapted Especially to Secure Safety and Economy in Its Use
It is possible that the first impression of the English reader, on perusing the title-page of this work, may be that of surprise at being referred to the writings of a foreigner, and to the results of foreign experience, for information on a subject so essentially English as that of the Steam Engine. England is, it will be said, not only the birth-place of this machine, but the country in which it has gained all the progressive developement that has fitted it for its present magnificent sphere of usefulness; - the English have been the inventors and improvers, and are par excellence the manufacturers of the Steam Engine; and, it may be asked, is it consistent with our national honour to be sent to another country for information on a subject allowed, almost by common consent, to be peculiarly and exclusively our own?
This inquiry is natural enough, but it has a very simple and satisfactory answer.
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