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The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated (Seventh Edition) / With an Account of Its Invention and Progressive Improvement, and Its Application to Navigation and Railways; Including Also a Memoir of Watt — Dionysius Lardner

The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated (Seventh Edition) / With an Account of Its Invention and Progressive Improvement, and Its Application to Navigation and Railways; Including Also a Memoir of Watt

Dionysius Lardner

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 509 pages

Published in 1840, this collection of essays by Dionysius Lardner explains the steam engine, tracing its invention, gradual improvement, and use in navigation and railways. It also includes a memoir of James Watt. It will appeal to listeners interested in the history of technology and the Industrial Revolution.

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The Steam Engine

Explained and Illustrated

WATT.

Engraved by H. Adlard, from a Drawing by H. Corbould, taken with the permission of James Watt, Esq.

FROM THE STATUE BY CHANTREY.

London: Taylor & Walton, Upper Gower Street.

THE
STEAM ENGINE
EXPLAINED AND ILLUSTRATED;
WITH
AN ACCOUNT OF ITS INVENTION AND PROGRESSIVE
IMPROVEMENT,
AND ITS APPLICATION TO
NAVIGATION AND RAILWAYS;
INCLUDING ALSO
A Memoir of Watt.
BY
DIONYSIUS LARDNER, D.C.L. F.R.S.
&c. &c.
SEVENTH EDITION,
ILLUSTRATED BY ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR TAYLOR AND WALTON,
28. UPPER GOWER STREET.
MDCCCXL.
London:
Printed by A. Spottiswoode,
New-Street-Square.
TO
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
HENRY LORD BROUGHAM AND VAUX,
FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY,

AND
MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FRANCE,
AS A MARK OF PUBLIC RESPECT
AND
A TESTIMONY OF PRIVATE REGARD,
THIS WORK
INSCRIBED, BY HIS ATTACHED FRIEND,
THE AUTHOR.
ADVERTISEMENT.
The Drawings for several of the Cuts in this
Volume have been taken, by the permission of
Mr. Weale, from the admirable Plates annexed
to the last edition of Tredgold on the Steam
Engine
and
on
Steam
Navigation.
This
acknowledgment is especially due for the
Illustrations which abound in this Volume.
London, June, 1840.
LONDON ENTRANCE TO THE BIRMINGHAM
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.

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Contents

  1. The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated
  2. CONTENTS.
  3. CHAPTER I.
  4. CHAP. II.
  5. CHAP. III.
  6. CHAP. IV.
  7. CHAP. V.
  8. CHAP. VI.
  9. CHAP. VII.
  10. CHAP. VIII.
  11. CHAP. IX.
  12. CHAP. X.
  13. CHAP. XI.
  14. CHAP. XII.
  15. CHAP. XIII.
  16. CHAP. XIV.
  17. APPENDIX.
  18. INDEX.
  19. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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