Excerpt from Practical Mechanics: Applied to the Requirements of the Sailor Notwithstanding the existence of many able Text-books on Practical and Applied Mechanics, few are adapted in their application to the requirements Of the Sailor, and many young men, feeling the need Of a work on this subject, have expressed a desire for a text-book on Mechanics suited to their own special wants, and such as shall enable them to conduct their professional Operations in this field Of practice on more scientific principles than have hitherto obtained on board ship in the Mercantile Marine. 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.