Author : William Rosen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,22 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 : 11,30 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 : Robert Gardiner
Publisher : Naval Inst Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,89 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781557500007
A sophisticated outline of the factors that shaped the rise of the steamer is presented.
Author : Basil Greenhill
Publisher : Brassey's
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 36,28 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Merchant ships
ISBN :
The advent of steam power was one of the greatest innovations in maritime transport since the development of the three-masted ship. This book examines the history of the merchant steamship, from the introduction of the paddle to screw propulsion and the emergence of efficient compound engines.
Author : Henry Winram Dickinson
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 25,74 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Steam-engines
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Crump
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Publishers
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 22,91 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 : Axel Lorenzsonn
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 20,41 MB
Release : 2010-09-27
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 087020470X
Based on the author’s extensive research into the early history of Wisconsin’s rails, Steam and Cinders chronicles the boom and bust of the first railroads in the state, from the charters of the 1830s to the farm mortgages of the 1850s and consolidation of the railroads on the eve of the Civil War. Featuring more than 75 period photographs, historic maps, and drawings, Steam and Cinders preserves the legacy of early Wisconsin railroading for railroad buffs and armchair historians alike.
Author : Henry Winram Dickinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 16,1 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 : Thomas Crump
Publisher : Constable
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 13,15 MB
Release : 2007
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 : Ken Gibbs
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,47 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.
