The Most Powerful Idea in the World

The Most Powerful Idea in the World

Author: William Rosen

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2012-03-15

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0226726347

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"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.


Power from Steam

Power from Steam

Author: Richard L. Hills

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1993-08-19

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780521458344

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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.


The Steam Locomotive

The Steam Locomotive

Author: Ken Gibbs

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2012-12-15

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 1445624257

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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.


Watt's Perfect Engine

Watt's Perfect Engine

Author: Ben Marsden

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9780231131728

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Discusses the life of scientist James Watt, inventor of the separate-condenser steam engine, and focuses on re-discovering steam, types of steam engines, manufacturing and marketing a steam engine.


Building Simple Model Steam Engines

Building Simple Model Steam Engines

Author: Tubal Cain

Publisher: Nexus Special Interests

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 9781854861474

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A guide to building simple oscillating steam engine models. It describes the making of four such models: Kitty, a small overtype engine; Otto, a simple steam turbine plant; Wencelas, a superior Christmas present; and Henry a 19th-century vertical engine and boiler.


The Steam Engine of Thomas Newcomen

The Steam Engine of Thomas Newcomen

Author: L. T. C. Rolt

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781901522440

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Originally published in 1977 as a memorial to Rolt, this is an authoritative biography on the life and work of Thomas Newcomen, the first to produce a machine capable of providing power, other than that derived from man, animals or the elements. Additional notes have been added to put the book within the context of more recent research.


James Watt

James Watt

Author: Anna Sproule

Publisher: Blackbirch Press, Incorporated

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781567113389

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A biography of the eighteenth-century Scottish inventor and engineer whose improved designs of the steam engine made its wide use possible.


The Mighty Steam Engine

The Mighty Steam Engine

Author: Yvonne Ng

Publisher: Amicus Ink

Published: 2019-08-06

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781681522371

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Using the rhyming poetic structure of This is the House that Jack Built, author Yvonne Ng takes young readers on a cumulative path through the inner workings of a steam engine, from the big wheels rolling on the tracks all the way to the engineer driving the train.