Journal Article

The subject of this paper is of such magnitude that it will only be possible to notice some of the most prominent features of the great changes which have taken place during the last few years in engineering practice. Engines and boilers are at present in a state of transition, steam pressures will be higher than they are at present, piston speeds will be greater, new materials will come into use, new designs and ideas will be put forth until the engine and boiler as we know them today will be things of the past. Where this will stop is impossible to foretell, but a revolution in the mechanical work may be safely predicted, in which it behoves everyone interested, to use their best efforts to keep abreast of. Otherwise they will be left in the rear of the great engineering developments which characterise the latter end of the nineteenth century, and bid fair to attain still further achievements to usher in the twentieth.