🔖 Excerpt from A Treatise on the Compound Steam Engine, Vol. 2
As the compound engine is being now so universally adopted in the Mercantile Marine Service, and a knowledge of its principles absolutely necessary by those engaged in attending it, we will, in the following remarks, explain these princi ples in as simple a manner as possible, and institute a comparison between the respective merits of the single-cylinder expansive condensing engine and the compound engine.
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