The Steam Engine Familiarly Explained and Illustrated With an historical sketch of its invention and progressive improvement; its applications to navigation and railways; with plain axioms for railway speculators

High-pressure Engines. -- Leupold's Engine. -- Trevithick and Vivian. -- Effects of Improvement in Locomotion. -- Historical Account of the Locomotive Engine. -- Blenkinsop's Pa...

Propulsion by paddle-wheels. -- Manner of driving them. -- Marine Engine. -- Its form and arrangement. -- Proportion of its cylinder. -- Injury to boilers by deposites and incru...

Mechanical efficacy of steam -- proportional to the quantity of water evaporated, and to the fuel consumed -- Independent of the pressure. -- Its mechanical efficacy by condensa...

Savery's Engine. -- Boilers and their appendages. -- Working apparatus. -- Mode of Operation. -- Defects of the Engine. -- Newcomen and Cawley. -- Atmospheric Engine. -- Acciden...

Railways and Turnpike Roads compared. -- Mr. Gurney's inventions. -- His Locomotive Steam Engine. -- Its performances. -- Prejudices and errors. -- Committee of the House of Com...

Motion the Agent in Manufactures. -- Animal Power. -- Power depending on Physical Phenomena. -- Purpose of a Machine. -- Prime Mover. -- Mechanical qualities of the Atmosphere....

(65.) The regular action of a steam engine, as well as the economy of fuel, depends in a great degree on the construction of the boiler or apparatus for generating the steam. Th...

The Single-Acting Engine unfit to impel Machinery. -- Various contrivances to adapt it to this purpose. -- Double-Cylinder. -- Double-Acting Cylinder. -- Various mode of connect...

(142.) For some time after the completion of the Liverpool and Manchester railway, doubts were entertained of its ultimate success as a commercial speculation; and, even still,...

(22.) In the history of the progress of the useful arts and manufactures, there is perhaps no example of any invention the credit of which has been so keenly contested as that o...

(49.) The first machine in which Watt realised the conceptions which we mentioned in the last chapter, is that which was afterwards called his _Single-acting Steam Engine_. We s...

(76.) The expansive property of steam, of which Watt availed himself in his single engine by cutting off the supply of steam before the descent of the piston was completed, was...

(60.) The various improvements described in the last chapter were secured to Watt by patent in the year 1782. The engine now acquired an enlarged sphere of action; for its domin...

Propulsion by paddle-wheels. -- Manner of driving them. -- Marine Engine. -- Its form and arrangement. -- Proportion of its cylinder. -- Injury to boilers by deposites and incru...

Mechanical efficacy of steam -- proportional to the quantity of water evaporated, and to the fuel consumed. -- Independent of the pressure. -- Its mechanical efficacy by condens...

High-pressure Engines. -- Leupold's Engine. -- Trevithick and Vivian. -- Effects of Improvement in Locomotion. -- Historical Account of the Locomotive Engine. -- Blenkinsop's Pa...

Motion the Agent in Manufactures. -- Animal Power. -- Power depending on physical Phenomena. -- Purpose of a Machine. -- Prime Mover. -- Mechanical qualities of the Atmosphere....

Railway and Turnpike Roads compared. -- Mr. Gurney's inventions. -- His Locomotive Steam Engine. -- Its performances. -- Prejudices and errors. -- Committee of the House of Comm...

The Single-acting Engine unfit to impel Machinery. -- Various Contrivances to adapt it to this Purpose. -- Double-Cylinder. -- Double-acting Cylinder. -- Various modes of connec...

Advantages of the Atmospheric Engine over that of Captain Savery. -- It contained no new Principle. -- Papin's Engine. -- James Watt. -- Particulars of his Life. -- His first co...

Savery's Engine. -- Boilers and their Appendages. -- Working Apparatus. -- Mode of Operation. -- Defects of the Engine. -- Newcomen and Cawley. -- Atmospheric Engine. -- Acciden...