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The Steam Engine Familiarly Explained and Illustrated With an historical sketch of its invention and progressive improvement; its applications to navigation and railways; with plain axioms for railway speculators

The Steam Engine Familiarly Explained and Illustrated With an historical sketch of its invention and progressive improvement; its applications to navigation and railways; with plain axioms for railway speculators

by Dionysius Lardner

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Author
Lardner, Dionysius, 1793-1859
Credits
Produced by Chris Curnow, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
TJ: Technology: Mechanical engineering and machinery
Subject
Steam-engines -- Early works to 1850
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 55428
Release Date
August 26, 2017
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.PREFACE OF THE AMERICAN EDITOR.
  3. 3.PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION.
  4. 4.PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
  5. 5.CONTENTS. — THE STEAM ENGINE EXPLAINED AND ILLUSTRATED.
  6. 6.CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY MATTER.
  7. 7.CHAPTER II. FIRST STEPS IN THE INVENTION. — HERO OF ALEXANDRIA, 120 B. C. — BLASCO DE GARAY, A. D. 1543. — SOLOMON DE CAUS, 1615. — GIOVANNI BRANCA, 1629. — EDWARD SOMERSET, MARQUIS OF WORCESTER, 1663. — SIR SAMUEL MORLAND, 1683. — DENIS PAPIN, 1695. — THOMAS SAVERY, 1698.
  8. 8.CHAPTER III. ENGINES OF SAVERY AND NEWCOMEN.
  9. 9.CHAP. IV. ENGINE OF JAMES WATT.
  10. 10.CHAPTER V. WATT'S SINGLE-ACTING STEAM ENGINE.
  11. 11.CHAPTER VI. DOUBLE-ACTING STEAM ENGINE.
  12. 12.CHAPTER VII. DOUBLE-ACTING STEAM ENGINE ( continued .)
  13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. BOILER AND ITS APPENDAGES.—FURNACE.
  14. 14.CHAPTER IX. DOUBLE-CYLINDER ENGINES.
  15. 15.CHAPTER X. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES ON RAILWAYS. — I. — II. — III.
  16. 16.CHAPTER XI. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES ON TURNPIKE ROADS.
  17. 17.CHAPTER XII. STEAM NAVIGATION.
  18. 18.CHAPTER XII. GENERAL ECONOMY OF STEAM POWER.
  19. 19.CHAPTER XIX. PLAIN RULES FOR RAILWAY SPECULATORS. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — IX. — X. — XI. — XII. — XIII. — XIV. — XV. — XVI. — XVII. — XVIII. — XIX. — XX. — XXI. — XXII. — XXIII. — XXIV. — XXV. — XXVI. — XXVII. — XXVIII.
  20. 20.INDEX.
  21. 21.Untitled
  22. 22.Notes
  23. 23.Transcriber's notes

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