Estimates of _cost_.
_Comparison_ of principal types of Engines and Boilers. Management and
repairing. Testing and recording performance.
IV.
MOTORS APPLIED to Mills. Estimation of required power and of _cost_.
Railroads. Study of Railroad machinery.
Ships. Structure of Iron Ships and rudiments of Naval architecture and
Ship propulsion.
PLANNING Machine shops, Boiler shops, Foundries, and manufactories of
textile fabrics. Estimating _cost_.
LECTURES BY EXPERTS.
GENERAL SUMMARY of principal facts, and natural laws, upon the thorough
knowledge of which successful practice is based; and general _resume_
of principles of business which must be familiar to the practicing
engineer.
V.
GRADUATING THESES.
GRADUATION.
Accompanying the above are courses of instruction in higher mathematics,
graphics, physics, chemistry, and the modern languages and literatures.
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IMPROVED DOUBLE BOILER.
The operation of boiling substances under pressure with more or less
dilute sulphuric or sulphurous acid forms a necessary stage of several
important manufactures, such as the production of paper from wood, the
extraction of sugar, etc.
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