The Most Powerful Idea in the World

The Most Powerful Idea in the World
Author: William Rosen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2012-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226726347

"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
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1993-08-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780521458344

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
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2012-12-15
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1445624257

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
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780231131728

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.

American Steam Locomotives

American Steam Locomotives
Author: William L. Withuhn
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 738
Release: 2019-03-01
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 0253039355

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.

James Watt

James Watt
Author: Anna Sproule
Publisher: Blackbirch Press, Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781567113389

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

Building Simple Model Steam Engines

Building Simple Model Steam Engines
Author: Tubal Cain
Publisher: Nexus Special Interests
Total Pages: 106
Release: 1998
Genre: Models and modelmaking
ISBN: 9781854861474

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:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1997
Genre: Inventions
ISBN: 9781901522440

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.

A Brief History of the Age of Steam

A Brief History of the Age of Steam
Author: Thomas Crump
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2007-10-26
Genre: History
ISBN:

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.