Technology
A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine
15. FUNGI: Their Nature, Influences, Uses, etc. By M. C. COOKE, M. A., LL. D. Edited by the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, M. A., F. L. S. With 109 Illustrations. $1.50.
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1. VOLUME XXIV.
15. FUNGI: Their Nature, Influences, Uses, etc. By M. C. COOKE, M. A., LL. D. Edited by the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, M. A., F. L. S. With 109 Illustrations. $1.50.
2. CHAPTER I.Introduction--the Importance of the Steam-Engine, 1; Hero and his Treatise on Pneumatics, 4; Hero's Engines, B. C. 200, 8; William of Malmesbury on Steam, A. D. 1150, 10; Hieron...
3. CHAPTER II.Defects of the Savery Engine, 55; Thomas Newcomen, A. D. 1705, 57; the Newcomen Steam Pumping-Engine, 59; Advantages of Newcomen's Engine, 60; Potter's and Beighton's Improvemen...
4. CHAPTER III.James Watt, his Birth and Parentage, 79; his Standing in School, 81; he learns his Trade in London, 81; Return to Scotland and Settlement in Glasgow, 82; the Newcomen Engine Mod...
5. CHAPTER IV.Introduction, 144; the Non-Condensing Engine and the Locomotive, 147; Newton's Locomotive, 1680, 149; Nathan Read's Steam-Carriage, 150; Cugnot's Steam-Carriage, 1769, 151; the...
6. CHAPTER V.Introduction, 221; Ancient Prophecies, 223; the Earliest Paddle-Wheel, 223; Blasco de Garay's Steam-Vessel, 1543, 224; Experiments of Dionysius Papin, 1707, 214; Jonathan Hulls'...
7. CHAPTER VI.Condition of the Steam-Engine at this Time, 303; the Later Development of the Engine, 304; Stationary Steam-Engines, 307; the Steam-Engine for Small Powers, 307; the Horizontal...
8. CHAPTER VII.General Outline, 419; Origin of its Power, 419; Scientific Principles involved in its Operation, 420; the Beginnings of Modern Science, 421; the Alexandrian Museum, 422; the Ari...
9. CHAPTER VIII.Origin of all Energy, 457; the Progress of Energy through Boiler and Engine, 458; Conditions of Heat-Development in the Boiler, 458; the Steam in the Engine, 458; the Expansion...
10. CHAPTER I.One of the greatest of modern philosophers--the founder of that system of scientific philosophy which traces the processes of evolution in every department, whether physical or...
11. CHAPTER II."The introduction of new Inventions seemeth to be the very chief of all human Actions. The Benefits of new Inventions may extend to all Mankind universally; but the Good of poli...
12. CHAPTER III.The world is now entering upon the Mechanical Epoch. There is nothing in the future more sure than the great triumphs which that epoch is to achieve. It has already advanced to...
13. CHAPTER IV.Introductory.--The commencement of the nineteenth century found the modern steam-engine fully developed in all its principal features, and fairly at work in many departments of...
14. CHAPTER V."Voila la plus merveilleuse de toutes les Machines; le Mecanisme ressemble a celui des animaux. La chaleur est le principe de son mouvement; il se fait dans ses differens tuyaux...
15. CHAPTER VI.... "And, last of all, with inimitable power, and 'with whirlwind sound,' comes the potent agency of steam. In comparison with the past, what centuries of improvement has this s...
16. CHAPTER VII."Of all the features which characterize this progressive economical movement of civilized nations, that which first excites attention, through its intimate connection with the p...
17. CHAPTER VIII."If everything which we cannot comprehend is to be called an impossibility, how many are daily presented to our eyes! and in contemning as false that which we consider to be imp...