Stationary Steam Engines, Simple and Compound

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. On reviewing the whole history of the engine to date, it will be seen that progress continues in the directions al ready pointed Out and towards still higher steam-pressures, higher speeds of piston and of rotation, increased ratios of expansion in multiple-cylinder engines, and with constant reduction of the now well-understood waste which distin guish the real from the ideal steam-engine.