Cet ouvrage regroupe en un seul volume les deux tomes originaux de la deuxieme edition de L'Histoire de la machine a vapeur ecrite en 1882 par Robert Henry THURSTON, professeur de mecanique a l'Institut polytechnique Stevens d'Hoboken, pres de New-York. Il a ete revu, annote et augmente d'une introduction par J. HIRSCH, professeur de machines a vapeur a l'Ecole des Ponts et Chaussees de Paris. Des premices de Heron d'Alexandrie, de Worcester, Papin ou Savery aux premieres machines de Newcomen, Beighton, Smeaton et bien sur ...
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Cet ouvrage regroupe en un seul volume les deux tomes originaux de la deuxieme edition de L'Histoire de la machine a vapeur ecrite en 1882 par Robert Henry THURSTON, professeur de mecanique a l'Institut polytechnique Stevens d'Hoboken, pres de New-York. Il a ete revu, annote et augmente d'une introduction par J. HIRSCH, professeur de machines a vapeur a l'Ecole des Ponts et Chaussees de Paris. Des premices de Heron d'Alexandrie, de Worcester, Papin ou Savery aux premieres machines de Newcomen, Beighton, Smeaton et bien sur James Watt, Robert Henry THURSTON nous guide dans cet univers passionnant qui a bouleverse notre mode de vie. Superbement illustre de plus de 150 dessins et gravures, il nous montre l'evolution de ce fantastique moyen de transformer l'eau et le feu en energie motrice. Des premieres applications industrielles pour elever l'eau aux fabuleux moyens de transport qui ont revolutionne le XIXeme siecle, Thurston passe en revue les locomotives, les locomobiles, la navigation a vapeur et toutes ces autres inventions du genie humain qui ont permis la revolution industrielle. Robert Henry THURSTON est ne aux Etats-Unis le 25 Octobre 1839, a Providence dans l'Etat de Rhode Island et est mort le 25 Octobre 1903, a Ithaca, Etat de New York.
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