Excerpt from The Lay-Out of Corliss Valve Gears The object of the' present work is to describe methods for designing Corliss valve gears for steam engines. For the sake of completeness this chapter will be, devoted to a short account of the mechan ism used, although it has often been; described before. 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.