How to become an engineer : $b 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 knowDoughty, Frank W.
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How to become an engineer : $b 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
Doughty, Frank W.
Locomotives -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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The boy who aims to become an engineer should not waste his school
hours in idle dreaming or in too much sport.
Improve every moment you can spare from other duties or needed exercise
in studying arithmetic, geometry, algebra and mechanical engineering. A
little knowledge as a draughtsman will also be a great help.
Above all, get some larger manual on locomotive engineering and read
and re-read it until you know its contents by heart.
Remember that there is no limit to knowledge in any direction.
The time can never come to any engineer when he can truthfully say to
himself, "I know it all," and to his life-long study write
[Illustration: THE END.]
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