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 ...
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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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10pp plates. Some rubbing, in a chipped, rubbed, torn & soiled dustwrapper, Good, 24x15cm, (37), 255pp, Dustwrapper flaps mounted to interior fixed flyleaves with cellophane tape. A reprint of the 1938 Cambridge University Press edition with a preface by A.E. Musson added.
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Good with no dust jacket. A clean, tight copy of what is probably the first edition of this title. Maddeningly, it is not dated, but the most recent reference in the text to a development in the history of steam engines is 1924, so I am guessing that this was issued in 1925, and later reprinted by Cambridge University Press in conjunction with industry giant Babcock and Wilcox. This copy has been bound in sturdy library buckram, and withdrawn from circulation. The graphics are crisp and excellent. A few plates have been embossed by the library on the periphery with a lacy design. Otherwise, library markings are minimal. There is a pull-out chart at the back giving a time-line of steam engine developments. It is intact, but requires careful handling. Fast shipping world wide, with tracking number supplied to all US customers.; Ex-library.
