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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.
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.
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.
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.
Author | : Colin Garratt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-05 |
Genre | : Locomotives |
ISBN | : 9780754823636 |
Two perfect books for train enthusiasts, with a historical reference book spanning nearly two centuries of locomotive development, and an enthralling illustrated guide to the world's greatest railway journeys of all timme
Author | : Robert Henry Thurston |
Publisher | : N.Y.: D. Appleton |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Steam-engines |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William L. Withuhn |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 464 |
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.
Author | : Christian Wolmar |
Publisher | : Atlantic Books |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2008-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1848872615 |
Now in paperback, Fire and Steam tells the dramatic story of the people and events that shaped the world's first railway network, one of the most impressive engineering achievements in history. The opening of the pioneering Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830 marked the beginning of the railways' vital role in changing the face of Britain. Fire and Steam celebrates the vision and determination of the ambitious Victorian pioneers who developed this revolutionary transport system and the navvies who cut through the land to enable a country-wide network to emerge. The rise of the steam train allowed goods and people to circulate around Britain as never before, stimulating the growth of towns and industry, as well many of the facets of modern life, from fish and chips to professional football. From the early days of steam to electrification, via the railways' magnificent contribution in two world wars, the checkered history of British Rail, and the buoyant future of the train, Fire and Steam examines the social and economical importance of the railway and how it helped to form the Britain of today.
Author | : Jonathan Brown |
Publisher | : Crowood Press (UK) |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The 19th century was the great age of steam. This book traces the history and development of the agricultural use of steam power from the 19th century to the end of the Second World War and considers how it was actually used.
Author | : Henry Winram Dickinson |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Steam-engines |
ISBN | : |