Chapter I: Front Matter

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YOUNG ENGINEER’S GUIDE.

BY
J. V. ROHAN,

RACINE, WISCONSIN.

PRICE:
Cloth Bound, $1.00.
Leather Bound, 1.25.

COPYRIGHT, 1894.
BY
J. V. ROHAN.

All rights reserved.

INDEX.

PAGE.
Ascending Hills, 150
Automatic Oiler, 79

Banking Fires, 162
Babbitting Boxes, 188
Belting, 165
Blower, 55
Blow-off Valve, 105

Calking Flues, 52
Check Valve, 107
Cleaning Flues, 53
Compression Grease Cup, 108
Compound Engines, 189
Connecting Rod, 67
Crank, 68
Crank-Pin, 69
Cross-head, 66
Cross-head Pump, 91
Crossing Bridges and Culverts, 156
Cylinder Cocks, 107

Descending Hills, 154
Differential Gear, 115
Duties of Engineers, 13

Eccentrics, 73
Eccentric Strap, 73
Eccentric Rod, 74
Ejector, 97
Engine Frame, 67
Engine Stalled, 155
Exhaust Nozzle, 55

Firing With Coal, 160
Firing with Wood, 159
Firing with Straw, 159
Foaming, 156
Friction Clutch, 116
Fusible Plug, 56

Gauge Cocks, 106
Gearing, 113
General Information, 170
Governor, 76

Heater, 96
Heating of Journals, 141
Hints to Purchasers, 9
Horizontal Tubular Boiler, 15

Injector, 83

Jet Pump, 97

Knocks or Pounds, 137

Laying Up a Traction Engine, 163
Link Reverse, 69
Link, 72
Locomotive Boiler, 16
Low Water Alarm, 57

Packing Piston and Valve Rods, 143
Piston and Rod, 62
Priming, 157

Questions with Answers
concerning Boilers, 30
Questions with Answers
concerning Engines and Boilers, 119
Questions with Answers for
Engineers applying for License, 195

Return Flue Boiler, 18
Reversing an Engine, 130
Reverse Lever, 72
Rules and Tables, 226

Safety Valve, 101
Setting Plain Slide Valve, 144
Setting Slide Valve of
Reversing Engine, 147
Setting Valve Duplex Pump, 150
Steam Cylinder, 61
Steam Chest, 63
Steam Engine, 60
Steam Gauge, 98
Steam Pump, 89

Testing Piston Rings and Valves, 136
Throttle, 88
Traction Engines, 112

Valve, 64
Vertical Boiler, 22

Water Tube Boiler, 24
Water Gauge, 104
Work-shop Recipes, 186
Woolf Valve Gear, 74

_INDEX OF ILLUSTRATIONS._

ENGINES.
E. P. Allis & Co., Milwaukee, Wis., 21
J. I. Case Threshing Machine Co., Racine, Wis., 26, 29, 224
Gaar, Scott & Co., Richmond, Ind., 36
Nichols & Shepard, Battle Creek, Mich., 49
J. I. Case Engine Co., New Britain, Conn., 58
M. Rumely Co., LaPorte, Ind., 71
Minneapolis Thresh. Machine Co., Minneapolis, Minn., 111
Advance Thresher Co., Battle Creek, Mich., 129
Watertown Engine Co., Watertown, N. Y., 135
Frick Co., Waynesboro, Pa., 153
Armington & Sims Engine Co., Providence, R. I., 168
The Geiser Manufacturing Co., Waynesboro, Pa., 178
The Ball Engine Co., Erie, Pa., 193
A. W. Stevens & Son, Auburn, N. Y., 203

BOILERS.
S. Freeman & Sons Manuf’g Co., Racine, Wis., 15, 16, 17, 22
J. I. Case Threshing Machine Co., Racine, Wis., 19
The Stirling Co., Chicago, Ill., 25

FITTINGS.
Thomas Prosser & Son, P. O. Box 2873, New York City, 52
Frontier Manufacturing Co., Buffalo, N. Y., 54
The Lunkenheimer Co., Cincinnati, O., 56, 89, 104, 106, 107
J. I. Case Threshing Machine Co., Racine, Wis., 75, 90, 116
The Gardner Governor Co., Quincy, Ill., 76
The Detroit Lubricator Co., Detroit, Mich., 81, 82, 83
American Injector Co., Detroit, Mich., 84, 87, 97, 98
Battle Creek Steam Pump Co., Battle Creek, Mich., 93, 94
The Ashcroft Manuf’ct’g Co., P O Box 2803, N. Y. City, 99, 100
E. B. Kunkle & Co., Fort Wayne, Ind., 101, 102
Chas H. Besly & Co., Chicago, Ill., 109