How to Become an Engineer

"How to Become an Engineer" by Frank W. Doughty, is an instructional book giving advice to young men in the late 1800s about becoming a locomotive engineer. It starts with the history of engines and explains the important work that engineers do. The book then gives a history of the people who invented steam engines, like James Watt, since the author thinks it helps to know how locomotives were first made. The writing pushes the reader to work hard and to learn by actually doing things, as well as by studying.