Author : William Rosen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 39,66 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 : Richard L. Hills
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 38,4 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 : Ken Gibbs
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 25,66 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 : L. T. C. Rolt
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 13,83 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Inventions
ISBN : 9781901522440
Originally published in 1977 as a memorial to Rolt, this is an authoritative biography on the life and work of Thomas Newcomen, the first to produce a machine capable of providing power, other than that derived from man, animals or the elements. Additional notes have been added to put the book within the context of more recent research.
Author : Henry Evers
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 32,8 MB
Release : 1873
Category : Steam
ISBN :
Author : Robert Henry Thurston
Publisher : N.Y.: D. Appleton
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 42,86 MB
Release : 1878
Category : Steam-engines
ISBN :
Author : Dionysius Lardner
Publisher :
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 12,39 MB
Release : 1840
Category : Steam-engines
ISBN :
Author : Robert Stuart
Publisher :
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 24,99 MB
Release : 1824
Category : Steam-engines
ISBN :
Author : Charles Frederick Partington
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 26,57 MB
Release : 1822
Category : Steam-engines
ISBN :
Author : Henry Winram Dickinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 17,87 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.
