Author : Richard L. Hills
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 29,15 MB
Release : 1993-08-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521458344
This is the first comprehensive history of the steam engine in fifty years. It follows the development of reciprocating steam engines, from their earliest forms to the beginning of the twentieth century when they were replaced by steam turbines.
Author : William Rosen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 38,52 MB
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226726347
"The Most Powerful Idea in the World argues that the very notion of intellectual property drove not only the invention of the steam engine but also the entire Industrial Revolution." -- Back cover.
Author : Robert Henry Thurston
Publisher : N.Y.: D. Appleton
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 48,16 MB
Release : 1878
Category : Steam-engines
ISBN :
Author : Ken Gibbs
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 17,88 MB
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445624257
Ken Gibbs tells the history of the engineering triumph that is a steam locomotive from the 1800s to the 1960s showing how each development changed the course of history.
Author : Thomas Crump
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Publishers
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,45 MB
Release : 2007-10-26
Category : History
ISBN :
In 1710 an obscure Devon ironmonger Thomas Newcomen invented a machine with a pump driven by coal, used to extract water from mines. Over the next two hundred years the steam engine would be at the heart of the industrial revolution that changed the fortunes of nations. Passionately written and insightful, A Brief History of the Age of Steam reveals not just the lives of the great inventors such as Watts, Stephenson and Brunel but also tells a narrative that reaches from the US to the expansion of China, India, and South America and shows how the steam engine changed the world.
Author : Henry Winram Dickinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 34,8 MB
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1108012280
A highly readable history of the stationary steam engine, intelligible to the non-specialist reader and engineer alike.
Author : William L. Withuhn
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 20,14 MB
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0253039355
For nearly half of the nation's history, the steam locomotive was the outstanding symbol for progress and power. It was the literal engine of the Industrial Revolution, and it played an instrumental role in putting the United States on the world stage. While the steam locomotive's basic principle of operation is simple, designers and engineers honed these concepts into 100-mph passenger trains and 600-ton behemoths capable of hauling mile-long freight at incredible speeds. American Steam Locomotives is a thorough and engaging history of the invention that captured public imagination like no other, and the people who brought it to life.
Author : Elijah Galloway
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 37,74 MB
Release : 1826
Category : Steam-engines
ISBN :
Author : Robert Stuart (pseud. [i.e. Robert Meikleham.])
Publisher :
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 35,82 MB
Release : 1831
Category : Steam-engines
ISBN :
Author : Robert Stuart
Publisher :
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,67 MB
Release : 1824
Category : Steam-engines
ISBN :
