A Short History Of The Steam Engine

Author : Henry Winram Dickinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108012280
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of the Steam Engine written by Henry Winram Dickinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly readable history of the stationary steam engine, intelligible to the non-specialist reader and engineer alike.

Author : Henry Winram Dickinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of the Steam Engine written by Henry Winram Dickinson and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry W. Dickinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780678051665
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Short History of the Steam Engine written by Henry W. Dickinson and published by . This book was released on 1980-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : H. W. Dickinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138390898
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of the Steam Engine written by H. W. Dickinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of the Age of Steam written by Thomas Crump and published by Constable. This book was released on 2007 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Reed Kinert
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486141403
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early American Steam Locomotives written by Reed Kinert and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relive train travel's earliest days with this splendidly illustrated story of steam locomotion, from "teakettles" to "titans." Working from builders' specifications, old engravings, and contemporaneous accounts, the author re-creates, in accurate renderings, the earliest locomotives.

Author : Christian Wolmar
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0744020700
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of the Railroad written by Christian Wolmar and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-12-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Robert Henry Thurston
Publisher : N.Y.: D. Appleton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Growth of the Steam-engine written by Robert Henry Thurston and published by N.Y.: D. Appleton. This book was released on 1878 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Winram Dickinson
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of the Steam Engine written by Henry Winram Dickinson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1939 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard L. Hills
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521458344
Total Pages : 360 pages
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Download or read book Power from Steam written by Richard L. Hills and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-08-19 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.