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CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. HISTORICAL.
CHAPTER II. DESCRIPTION OF THE LOCOMOTIVE.
CHAPTER III. HOW TO BECOME AN ENGINEER.
CHAPTER IV. DUTIES OF AN ENGINEER.
CHAPTER V. HOW TO RUN A TRAIN.
CHAPTER VI. HOW TO BUILD A MODEL LOCOMOTIVE.
CHAPTER VII. CONCLUSION.
HOW TO BECOME
AN ENGINEER.
Containing Full Instructions How to Proceed in
Order to Become a Locomotive Engineer;
Also Directions for Building a Model
Locomotive; together with a Full
Description of Everything an
Engineer Should Know.
PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED.
BY AN OLD ENGINEER ON THE NEW YORK CENTRALRAILROAD.
New York:
FRANK TOUSEY, Publisher
29 West 26th Street.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1898, by
FRANK TOUSEY,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D.C.
How to Become an Engineer.
CHAPTER I.
HISTORICAL.
To begin a subject properly you must begin at the beginning.
Boys who don't like history need not read this chapter, forin it we tell how the steam engine began, and if it never hadbegun, you know, there would never have been any engineers,nor any necessity for writing this book.
For two or three generations we have had the story ofJames Watt told us; how when a boy and watching hismother's tea-kettle one day he saw the steam lift the lid, andthat suggested the idea that if a little steam could lift thelid of a kettle, a great deal would lift still heavier weightsand revolutionize the world.
Now they tell us that Watt was not the first one to havethis idea by several, that it was first suggested by the Marquisof Worcester, in his book called the "Century of Inventions,"as "a way to drive up water by fire," A. D. 1663.
This was about a h