For Improvements on the Steam Engine, and its Application of Steam Power to Navigation, and to Locomotion, in: Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, devoted to the Mechanical Arts, Manufactures, General Science, and the Recording of American and other Patented Inventions

Richard Trevithick, For Improvements on the Steam Engine, and its Application of Steam Power to Navigation, and to Locomotion, in Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, devoted to the Mechanical Arts, Manufactures, General Science, and the Recording of American and other Patented Inventions, edited by Thomas P. Jones, printed in Philadelphia at the Franklin, 1833; volume 16 (New Series vol 12), pp 111-112, in the volume of 438pp. Half-calf and marbled boards, raised bands, gilt dentelles. Very nice condition with a ghost-appearance of a spine label at bottom; ex-library stamps on title page. Very clean and crisp. __+__ Includes much else of interest, for example: A.D. Bache, Experiments Made on the Navigation of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal by Steam., pp 361-373; Robert Hare, Apparatus for Transferring a liquid from a carboy, or cask, to bottles especially useful in the case of sulphuric acid., pp 226-228 (with two woodcuts of the instruments); William Scoresby, On the Deviation of the Compass; with examples of its fatal influence in some melacholy and dreadful shipwrecks, pp 40-43 and 121-124. Undulating Rail-way and The Undulating Rail-way, pp 45-52; Michael Faraday, Practical Prevention of Dry Rot in Timber, pp 346-351; E. Galloway, On the Application of Steam, expansively, in Cornish Steam Engines, pp 273-277 and 337-341; James Walker and A. Burges, Report on the Sate of Blackfriars Bridge, pp 283-286 and 342-346; Biscuit Making Machinery; Steam Carriages, Selections from (David) Brewster's Optics.…