A Short History of the Steam Engine (Cambridge Library Collection - Technology) - Softcover

Dickinson, Henry Winram

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108012280 ISBN 13: 9781108012287

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

A Short History of the Steam Engine, first published in 1939, remains one of the most readable and clear explanations of the topic for the non-specialist. H. W. Dickinson limits himself to stationary engines and boilers, and only touches on the beginnings of locomotive and marine engines. He puts the stages of development in their context, showing how economic and social factors were involved in the evolution of the steam engine. The illustrations are plentiful and the text, while technical, never becomes impenetrable. The successive improvements to the simple engines of the seventeenth century, as new materials or purposes arose, are developed chapter by chapter to the twentieth century. Each engineer was building on the work of his predecessors, rather than there being any single inventor of genius. Dickinson also wrote biographies of key figures of the Industrial Revolution, which are being reissued in this series.

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Book Description:

A Short History of the Steam Engine, first published in 1939, remains one of the most readable on the topic for the non-specialist. Dickinson limits himself to stationary engines and boilers. The many illustrations and lucid text make this book a pleasure for both engineer and historian.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1108012280
• ISBN 13: 9781108012287
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300