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

Taylor and Walton, 1840 - 535 pàgines

LONDON ENTRANCE TO THE BIRMINGHAM RAILROAD	3

Examination of the analogous Effects produced by	8

Object of this Work	9

Blasco De Garays Proposition to propel Vessels by a	16

Giovanni Branca proposes to work Mills by Steam	22

Elasticity of Gases	28

Denis Papin	36

Elastic Force of Air and Gases	43

Gross and useful Effect of an Engine	285

Sources of Loss of Power	292

Table showing the Improvement of Cornish Engines	298

LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES ON RAILWAYS	321

Construction of a Machine for moving Carriages on Rail	328

Moral and political Consequences of	334

Liverpool and Manchester Railway	343

Description of the Novelty	349

CHAP II	49

Atmospheric Engine improved by Beighton	75

CHAP IV	97

Table showing the Temperature at which Water will boil	113

CHAP V	119

WATTS ENGINES	145

CHAP VII	167

Stewarts Application of the Engine to Millwork	184

34	190

CHAP VIII	193

38	202

41	209

43	216

44	224

Saverys Engine	230

Defects of Saverys Engine	238

Twoway Cock	239

Pistons	242

Bartons Piston	248

Absence of good practical Rules for Power	251

63	252

Heat evolved in it	254

Combustion of Gas in Flues	260

155	266

Barometer Gauge	272

Frame	275

Counter	278

Dr Lardners Experiments in 1832	357

195	359

Detailed Description of the most improved Locomotive	365

Power of Locomotive Engines	379

Pressure of Steam in the Boiler	401

Resistance to Railway Trains	407

Railways and Stone Roads compared	419

His Method of cleansing Boilers	428

Horse Carriages compared with Steam	435

CHAP XIII	441

Substitution of Copper for Iron Boilers 4 60	460

Application of the expansive Principle in Marine Engines	466

Common Paddlewheel	472

Split Paddle	478

Steam Navigation to India	485

Steamboats navigating	487

The Hudson navigated by Steam	491

Speed attained by American Steamers 4 97	498

APPENDIX	505

Empirical Formula for the Relation between the Volume of Water	511

Formulæ showing the Relation between the Power of the Engine	516

The Mississippi and its Tributaries 499	523

Effects of the Expansion of common Steam	525

Advantages of the Atmospheric Engine over that of Savery	532

Watts Machine for drying Linen	533

Conceives the Notion of condensing out of the Cylinder	534

Títol	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
Autor	Dionysius Lardner
Edició	7
Editor	Taylor and Walton, 1840
Original de	Deutsches Museum
Digitalitzat el	24 Abr. 2017
Nre. de pàgines	535 pàgines

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