Book Description
A highly readable history of the stationary steam engine, intelligible to the non-specialist reader and engineer alike.
Author : Henry Winram Dickinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 16,39 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 : Henry Winram Dickinson
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 36,87 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Steam-engines
ISBN :
Author : H. W. Dickinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 2020-09-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781138390898
First published in 1938, this volume details the steam engine as the most dynamic factor in the Industrial Revolution, freeing humanity from their age-long dependence upon the power of water, wind, and animals, or of their own muscles. Itself the offspring of coal and iron, it made possible the sinking of deeper mines and the casting and forging of greater quantities of iron, from which machines were constructed to be powered by steam in the factories of the rapidly growing industrial areas. Soon the mass-produced goods from these mills were transported by steam locomotives and steamships all over the world. This was the Age of Steam. Even today, steam turbines still drive the dynamos of our electric power stations, whether fuelled by coal, oil or nuclear energy. Much has been written about the steam engine, but this book, first produced by the late Dr. H.W. Dickinson just before the second World War, is still the best short account. It describes developments from the pioneering efforts of Savery and Newcomen, through the achievements of Watt and Trevethick, down to Parsons and modern times.
Author : Thomas Crump
Publisher : Constable
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 31,69 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 : Henry W. Dickinson
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 21,80 MB
Release : 1980-05-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780678051665
Author : Christian Wolmar
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,14 MB
Release : 2024-12-02
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0744020700
A fascinating journey through the history of the railroad, packed with first-hand accounts of innovation, triumph, and tragedy. From the earliest steam engine to the high-speed bullet trains of today, A Short History of the Railroad reveals the hidden stories of railroad history across the world - the inspired engineering; the blood, sweat, and tears that went into the construction of the tracks; the ground-breaking innovations behind the trains that travelled along them; and the triumphs and tragedies of the people who made the railway what it is. Chart the history of the Trans-Siberian railway, the Orient Express, and Maglev trains and the impact of world events on the development of trains and the railway. Explore the pioneering railway lines that crossed continents, the key trains of each era, and the locomotives that changed the world. A riveting narrative packed with photographs, diagrams, and maps to illustrate and illuminate, this is the biography of the machines that carried us into the modern era.
Author : Henry Winram Dickinson
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 36,56 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Steam-engines
ISBN :
Author : Henry Winram Dickinson
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 44,90 MB
Release :
Category : Steam-engines
ISBN :
Author : Robert Henry Thurston
Publisher : N.Y.: D. Appleton
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 45,55 MB
Release : 1878
Category : Steam-engines
ISBN :
Author : Robert Stuart
Publisher :
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,32 MB
Release : 1824
Category : Steam-engines
ISBN :