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I hope tonight's installment provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep for once.

So lie back, adjust your volume.

Take a nice deep breath and off we go.

This evening we're reading farm engines and how to run them.

The young engineers guide. to run them, the Young Engineers Guide, a simple practical handbook for experts as well as

for amateurs, fully describing every part of an engine and boiler, giving full directions for the safe and

economical management of both. Also, several hundred questions and answers often given in examinations for an

engineers license and chapters on farm engine economy with special attention

to traction and gasoline farm engines and a chapter on the science of successful

threshing by James H. Stevenson and other expert engineers, with numerous illustrations showing the different parts of a boiler and engine, and nearly every make of traction engine with a brief description of the distinctive points in each make.

Copyright 1993 by Frederick J. Drak and Co. Chicago, Illinois. Let's begin. Preface. This book makes no pretensions to originality.

It has taken the best from every source.

The author believes the matter has been arranged in a more simple and effective manner and that more information has been crowded into these pages than will be found within the pages of any similar book.

The Professional Engineer in writing a book for young engineers, is likely to forget that the

novice is unfamiliar with many terms which are like daily bred to him. The present writers have tried to avoid that

pitfall and to define each term as it naturally needs definition. Moreover, the description of parts and the definitions of terms have

preceded any suggestions on operation. The authors believing that the young engineer should become thoroughly familiar with his engine and its manner of working, before he is told what is best to do and not to do.

If he is forced on too fast, he's likely to get mixed. The test questions

at the end of Chapter 3 will show how perfectly the preceding pages have been mastered, and the student is not

ready to go on till he can answer all these questions readily.

The system of questions and answers has its uses and its limitations. The authors have tried

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