Excerpt from The Fireman's Guide: A Handbook on the Care of Boilers, by Teknologforeningen T. I., Stockholm, Translated From the Third Edition, and Revised Having noticed that boiler explosions too frequently occur through neglect or incompetency of the attend ant, the translator has, with a view to lessen the num ber of such occurrences, placed this little book before the public and he trusts that firemen, engineers and even boiler-owners may find in it much that may be of service to them. 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.