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Excerpt from A Practical Treatise Upon Steam Heating: Embracing Methods and Appliances for Warming Buildings, Heating Water and Cooking by Steam; Low Pressure, High Pressure and Exhaust Steam The practice of steam heating is gradually growing in favour, but hitherto the number of engineers who profess the work in this country, and are skilled at it, has been comparatively small. There can be no doubt that this has been due, in a large measure, to the want of an English book upon the subject, none having been written, so far as the writer of this, by the fullest inquiry, can ascertain. The want of a book and the readily acquired knowledge that a book gives, natur ally tend to retard progress; for if a man is wanting in skill in this work he may, even unconsciously, speak more highly of some other mode of heating with which he is familiar. There is considerable certainty that steam will never be preferred to hot water for general heating work - not in residences for instance - but for many purposes it excels hot water and every other means of affording warmth. On this account it is likely to grow in favour and make a practical treatise useful and sought for. 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.