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.

American Steam Locomotives
American Steam Locomotives

Author: William L. Withuhn

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2019-03-01

Total Pages: 738

ISBN-13: 0253039355

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For nearly half of the nation's history, the steam locomotive was the outstanding symbol for progress and power. It was the literal engine of the Industrial Revolution, and it played an instrumental role in putting the United States on the world stage. While the steam locomotive's basic principle of operation is simple, designers and engineers honed these concepts into 100-mph passenger trains and 600-ton behemoths capable of hauling mile-long freight at incredible speeds. American Steam Locomotives is a thorough and engaging history of the invention that captured public imagination like no other, and the people who brought it to life.

How Transformative Innovations Shaped the Rise of Nations
How Transformative Innovations Shaped the Rise of Nations

Author: Gerard Tellis

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2018-05-30

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1783087951

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Over the last 2,000 years, critical innovations have transformed small regions into global powers. But these powers have faded when they did not embrace the next big innovation. Gerard J. Tellis and Stav Rosenzweig argue that openness to new ideas and people, empowerment of individuals and competition are key drivers in the development and adoption of transformative innovations. These innovations, in turn, fuel economic growth, national dominance and global leadership. In How Transformative Innovations Shaped the Rise of Nations, Tellis and Rosenzweig examine the transformative qualities of concrete in Rome; swift equine warfare in Mongolia; critical navigational innovations in the golden ages of Chinese, Venetian, Portuguese and Dutch empires; the patent system and steam engine in Britain; and mass production in the United States of America.

A Brief History of the Age of Steam
A Brief History of the Age of Steam

Author: Thomas Crump

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers

Published: 2007-10-26

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13:

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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.

They Made America
They Made America

Author: David Lefer

Publisher: Back Bay Books

Published: 2009-03-03

Total Pages: 922

ISBN-13: 0316070343

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An illustrated history of American innovators -- some well known, some unknown, and all fascinating -- by the author of the bestselling The American Century.