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Author: William Rosen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012-03-15
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0226726347
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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: Richard L. Hills
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993-08-19
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780521458344
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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
Published: 2012-12-15
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 1445624257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKen 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: Ben Marsden
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780231131728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses 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.
Author: Tubal Cain
Publisher: Nexus Special Interests
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9781854861474
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
Author: L. T. C. Rolt
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781901522440
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally 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.
Author: Anna Sproule
Publisher: Blackbirch Press, Incorporated
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781567113389
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA biography of the eighteenth-century Scottish inventor and engineer whose improved designs of the steam engine made its wide use possible.
Author: Robert Henry Thurston
Publisher:
Published: 1878
Total Pages: 522
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Yvonne Ng
Publisher: Amicus Ink
Published: 2019-08-06
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781681522371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing 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.
Author: Hugo Reid
Publisher:
Published: 1838
Total Pages: 224
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