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Specification Of James Watt
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Author : Great Britain. Patent Office
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1855
Specification Of James Watt written by Great Britain. Patent Office and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1855 with Steam-engines categories.
Historical And Descriptive Anecdotes Of Steam Engines And Of Their Inventors And Improvers
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Author : Robert Stuart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1829
Historical And Descriptive Anecdotes Of Steam Engines And Of Their Inventors And Improvers written by Robert Stuart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1829 with Inventors categories.
A Text Book On Steam Steam Engines
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Author : Andrew Jamieson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
A Text Book On Steam Steam Engines written by Andrew Jamieson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Steam categories.
The Steam Engine
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Author : Daniel Kinnear Clark
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
The Steam Engine written by Daniel Kinnear Clark and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with Steam-boilers categories.
Power From Steam
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Author : Richard L. Hills
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1993-08-19
Power From Steam written by Richard L. Hills and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-08-19 with Science categories.
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.
Steam Engines
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Author : Llewellyn V. Ludy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1920
Steam Engines written by Llewellyn V. Ludy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1920 with Steam-engines categories.
Steam Engines
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Author : Llewellyn V. Ludy
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2015-06-02
Steam Engines written by Llewellyn V. Ludy and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-02 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Excerpt from Steam Engines: A Thorough and Practical Presentation of Modern Steam Engine Practice The modern steam engine, whether it be the majestic Corliss, which so silently operates the massive electric generators in one of our municipal power plants, or the giant locomotive which pulls the Limited at sixty miles an hour, commands our unstinted admiration. And yet every movement is so free and perfect in its action, every function is performed with such precision and regularity, that we lose sight of the wonderful theoretical and mechanical development which was necessary to bring these machines to their present state of perfection. The genius of Watt, the "father" of the steam engine, was so great that his basic conception of this, his greatest invention, and of many of his minor discoveries in connection with it, remain almost as he gave them to the world over a century ago. Yet he was so far in advance of the mechanical development of his time that his workmen could not build engine cylinders nearer true than three-eighths of an inch. Modern builders demand an accuracy of at least two-thousandths of an inch - almost two hundred times greater. But mechanical skill is not the only particular in which progress had been made. Many minor but important improvements have been brought about by a careful study of the theory of heat engines. The reduction of enormous heat losses, the use of superheated steam, the idea of compound expansion, the development of the Stephenson, Walschaert, and other valve gears - all have contributed towards making the steam engine well-nigh mechanically perfect and as efficient as is inherently possible. The story has been developed from a historical standpoint and along sound theoretical and practical lines. It will be found absorbingly interesting and instructive to the stationary engineer as well as to all who wish to follow modern steam engineering development. The material is particularly adapted to home study. If, therefore, the book should prove of real value in stimulating the interest of the trained man or the layman in the technical developments of the day, the publishers will feel that its mission has been accomplished. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Steam Engine
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Author : American School of Correspondence at Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1908
The Steam Engine written by American School of Correspondence at Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1908 with Steam-engines categories.
The Governor
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Author : John Hannavy
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
Release Date : 2022-03-10
The Governor written by John Hannavy and has been published by Pen and Sword Transport this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-10 with Technology & Engineering categories.
A history of the creation and evolution of the mechanism that brought precision to the steam power and changed the world. Power without control is unusable power, and long after the invention of the steam engine, finding ways of applying that power to tasks where consistency was of paramount importance was the ‘Holy Grail’ which many steam engineers sought to find. It was the centrifugal governor which brought precision to the application of steam power, and its story can be traced back to seventeenth-century Holland and Christiaan Huygens’ development of both the pendulum clock and system controls for windmills, and governors are still at the heart of sophisticated machinery today—albeit electronic rather than mechanical. Without the centrifugal governor, precise control over the increasingly-complex machinery which has been developed over the past two centuries would not have been possible. It was the first device to give the engineman the control they needed. As machine speed increased, the governor had to evolve to keep pace with the demands for greater precision. Over a hundred British patents were applied for in the nineteenth century alone for ‘improvements’ in governor design, many of which could be fitted, or retro-fitted, to engines from every large manufacturer. Some enginemen, on taking up new appointments—their jobs depending on the precision and consistency of their engine’s operation—would even request that the governor be replaced with their preferred model. This book, the first to deal with the subject, tells the story of the evolution of the original ‘spinning-ball’ governor from its first appearance to the point where it became a small device entirely enclosed in a housing to keep it clean, and thus hidden from view. Praise for The Governor “A beautiful, well-produced book that any engineering-minded person with a passion for steam engines will be proud to own. It traces the story of attempts to get the speed of steam engines and other machinery under control. . . . The book is lavishly illustrated with many beautiful photographs of some of the author's favourite machines. . . . I found this a gloriously well-produced book which I devoured enthusiastically! I commend it to anyone with a serious interest in mechanical engineering.” —Richard Gibbon O.B.E. C.Eng F.I.Mech.E former Head of Engineering, National Railway Museum
Innovation And Technological Diffusion
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Author : Harry Kitsikopoulos
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-10-23
Innovation And Technological Diffusion written by Harry Kitsikopoulos and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-23 with Business & Economics categories.
This book deals with two key aspects of the history of steam engines, a cornerstone of the Industrial Revolution, specifically the road that led to its discovery and the process of diffusion of the early steam engines. The first part of the volume outlines the technological and scientific developments which took place between the 16th and 18th centuries, proving critical for the invention of this strategic technology. The most important question addressed is why did England come up with this innovation first as opposed to other countries (e.g., France, Italy), which were more advanced in terms of knowledge pertinent to it. The second part of the volume traces the process of diffusion of the early steam engines, the Newcomen model, through to 1773, the year prior to the first commercial application of the second generation of steam engines (the Watt model). The process of diffusion is quantified on the basis of a novel method before proceeding with a discussion of the main determinants of this process. Kitsikopoulos pulls together a large amount of relevant evidence found in primary sources and more technically oriented literature which is often ignored by economic historians. This book will be of interest to economic historians and historians of technology.