Author : Richard L. Hills
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 18,64 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 : 28,2 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 : William Rosen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 19,79 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 : Colin White
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 36,22 MB
Release : 1983
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Crump
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Publishers
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 24,2 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 : Colin Garratt
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,35 MB
Release : 2011-05
Category : Locomotives
ISBN : 9780754823636
Two perfect books for train enthusiasts, with a historical reference book spanning nearly two centuries of locomotive development, and an enthralling illustrated guide to the world's greatest railway journeys of all timme
Author : John Walter
Publisher : History Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,22 MB
Release : 2016-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780750967167
John Walter has created an accessible one-volume study of the development of the steam railway locomotive from Trevithick, Hedley, Blenkinsop, Seguin, Stevenson and other pioneers to the ground-breaking analytical work of Chapelon and his disciples. Beginning with a full history, the book then presents a comprehensive directory based on the Whyte wheel classification system. Packed with images, diagrams and contemporary artworks, this well-researched book will be indispensable to casual and serious enthusiasts alike.
Author : William L. Withuhn
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 16,3 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 : Kevin P. Keefe
Publisher :
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 18,11 MB
Release : 2016-06
Category : Pere Marquette 1225 (Steam locomotive)
ISBN : 9781611862034
This against-all-odds story of a World War II era steam locomotive captures the determination of two generations of volunteers to keep it running. The narrative traces the train s regular freight service in Michigan, its unlikely salvation from the scrapyard, and the subsequent work to bring it back to steam. This is the tale of the revival of a significant steam locomotive and a triumph of historic preservation."
Author : Keith Moseley
Publisher : Orchard Books (NY)
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 48,82 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Locomotives
ISBN : 9780531058442
A pop-up guide to the history and use of steam engines which depicts seven intricate dimensional models of a range of famous steam locomotives.
