Abstract
1THE AUTHOR After some nineteen years of naval service, fourteen as a Chief Boilermaker and Chief Boilerman aboard tenders, destroyers, aircraft carriers, and three years in engineering experimental work, I find myself retired from the Navy, engaged as a service engineer with an automatic control company. My introduction to automatic combustion controls, ten years ago, was much the same as it is today for the average boiler operator. Only by refusal to accept a mechanical, pneumatic, electric or hydraulic “monster” that was doing my job as beyond my understanding, could I, or can anyone else, master automatic control systems. As a teacher, primarily, I have taken some liberties to maintain the desired simplicity in comparison in the article. The purpose is to get the operator to feel that controls can be understood and that existing instructions, schematics and blueprints can enlighten him further in mastery of automatic combustion control. With a basis in the relationship between automatic control and manual control the average man with initiative and desire “to know” can “know” by applying himself to the task.
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