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Download or read book Transactions of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland (Incorporated), Vol. 37 written by . This book was released on 2017-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Transactions of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland (Incorporated), Vol. 37: 1893-94 Reference to the proceedings of this and kindred societies shows that a favourite type of Presidential Address is the historical or reminiscent, and considering that some of your former Presidents were able to recall almost the very beginning of marine engineering, and were themselves, to some extent, the makers of the history of steamship building, it is not surprising that their reminiscences were extremely interesting. But, although my own recollections go back for a generation, I cannot hope that they would enlist your sympathies as did those traditions of the elders when they were delivered to you from the very lips of the elders themselves; and a summary of the engineering works of the year is apt to savour strongly of extracts from the technical journals. The temptation to take up a particular subject on which one fancies he can say something is almost irresistible, but I am not clear that it is quite fair so to invade the territory of the Members who contribute papers at our regular meetings, especially as the President's lucubration is, by courtesy, exempt from discussion, and his statements or Opinions might pass unquestioned, and be so recorded, when criticism might have exposed weakness or fallacies. 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.