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 páginas

LONDON ENTRANCE TO THE BIRMINGHAM RAILROAD	3

Examination of the analogous Effects produced by	8

Object of this Work	9

Brindley obtains a Patent for Improvement	12

Solomon De Caus	17

Marquis of Worcester	23

Force obtained by a Vacuum	43

CHAP II	49

Effects of Railway Transport	334

17	358

History of the Locomotive Engine	378

Experiment with the Hecla	412

23	414

CHAP XII	419

His Method of cleansing Boilers	428

Two Methods of applying Locomotive Engines upon com	434

His Descent and Parentage	75

Returns to Glasgow	81

CHAP IV	97

Table showing the Temperature at which Water will boil	113

CHAP V	119

WATTS ENGINES	145

Pistons	148

Economy of the Engine	151

Discovery of the expansive Action of Steam	157

Computed Effect of cutting off Steam at different Portions	163

Watts Attempts to extend the Steam Engine to Manufac	167

Superheated Steam	170

Stewarts Application of the Engine to Millwork	184

CHAP VIII	193

Twoway Cock	239

CHAP IX	251

CHAP X	301

LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES ON RAILWAYS	321

roads	328

CHAP XIII	441

Marine Boilers	448

Seawards Indicator	454

25	465

Galloways Patent for a Paddlewheel with movable Paddles	476

CHAP XIV	487

APPENDIX	505

Newcomens Engine described by Papin	513

Formulæ showing the Relation between the Power of the Engine	516

Accidental Discovery of Condensation by Injection	519

Experiments of Livingstone and Fulton	523

Combustion of Gas in Flues	524

Hornblowers Engine 175	525

Messrs Chapmans Contrivance	527

Tubular Condensers applied by Mr Watt 457	528

His Contrivance improved by the Substitution of a Plug	529

Woolfs Engine 176	532

Conceives the Notion of condensing out of the Cylinder	534

Occupation of his old	535

Título	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
Edição	7
Editora	Taylor and Walton, 1840
Original de	Deutsches Museum
Digitalizado	2 Ago 2017
Número de páginas	535 páginas

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