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attention to the production of intense heat in furnaces, and having 

 to make his choice between the two subjects, he selected the 

 furnace and the metallurgic process leading out of it ; and that 

 was why the engine had remained where it was for so long a time. 

 But now the time had come when there was a greater demand for 

 engines of a smaller kind to do their best in houses and in small 

 works, and when marine engineers especially had become fully 

 alive to the importance of more economical arrangements. He 

 therefore looked upon the question before the Institution as one of 

 first importance to engineers, and he hoped that it would be well 

 discussed. 



