Dock and Lock Machinery

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Excerpt from Dock and Lock Machinery: A Technical ManualBut these good old days are gone, and now Conventionalism holds sway over the minds of students and of men, and frowns on any attempt to make technical treatises readable whatever the subjects of these treatises may be.How then is it possible to render a manual on a theme so prosaic and one confined within limits so strait as that of Dock and Look Machinery interesting so far as to make it readable to make it such that it may be perused if not with pleasure, at least without aversion This seems to pass the wit of man at any rate, the wit of the man who has made the efiort which is com prised in the following chapters, and who feels that the best things which can be claimed for this small work are (1) that sincere endeavour has been made in it to ensure that the materials on which it is based should be obtained from original sources, and that in this way accuracy of description as well as of historical statement should be attained, and (2) that where opinions have been expressed in its pages the opinions have been broad based, not only on precedent, but on lengthened personal experience, for which reasons they may perhaps be accepted tentatively by those who, in some measure of toil and travail, are acquiring experience for themselves.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.