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Describes the invention of the steam engine the impact it has had on modern culture and patterns of change that resulted from its use
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Great Inventions is a captivating chronicle of major technological advances that have shaped everyday life over the past two centuries Each book provides an indepth look at the dedicated individuals behind each invention a history of each invention development and its presentday use and continuing evolution Engaging text and informative sidebars join with archival and contemporary images to demonstrate how innovative thinking and determination can change the world
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If all measures of human advancement in the last hundred centuries were plotted on a graph they would show an almost perfectly flat lineuntil the eighteenth century when the Industrial Revolution would cause the line to shoot straight up beginning an almost uninterrupted march of progressnbspnbspnbsp In The Most Powerful Idea in the World William Rosen tells the story of the men responsible for the Industrial Revolution and the machine that drove itthe steam engine In the process he tackles the question that has obsessed historians ever since What made eighteenthcentury Britain such fertile soil for inventors Rosens answer focuses on a simple notion that had become enshrined in British law the century before that people had the right to own and profit from their ideasnbspnbspnbsp The result was a period of frantic innovation revolving particularly around the promise of steam power Rosen traces the steam engines history from its early days as a clumsy but sturdy machine to its comingofage driving the wheels of mills and factories to its maturity as a transporter for people and freight by rail and by sea Along the way we enter the minds of such inventors as Thomas Newcomen and James Watt scientists including Robert Boyle and Joseph Black and philosophers John Locke and Adam Smithall of whose insights tenacity and ideas transformed first a nation and then the worldnbspWilliam Rosen is a masterly storyteller with a keen eye for the aha moments of invention and a gift for clear and entertaining explanations of science The Most Powerful Idea in the World will appeal to readers fascinated with history science and the hows and whys of innovation itself
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This is the story of a genius throttled by British government bureaucracy Although gagged for decades by the secrecy of that period the story can now be told in full and these revelations provide a fascinating insight into the attitudes of the wartime government and military establishment attitudes that led to one of the greatest inventions of all time being offered freely to those who were to become Britains main aircraft manufacturing competitors
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Steam engines with their hissing pistons revolving wheels and smell of oil and coal smoke have an irresistible attraction for many of usThe realisation that steam could be used to power machinery became one of the great Eureka moments of history comparable to the discovery of iron and the invention of the printing press It was steam powered engines of all kinds that drove the vast industrial expansion during the nineteenth century They featured in almost every aspect of life They made possible the excavation of deep mines the forward thrust of ships though the oceans and the propulsion of trains along the tracks of the worlds railways In this book Stan Yorke explains the history of the steam engine and the enormous variety of uses to which it was put There are over 100 photographs plus detailed diagrams by Trevor Yorke There is also a list of places where steam engines restored to working order by the hard work and enthusiasm of endless devotees can be seen today
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In 1977 the Newcomen Society produced this volume as a memorial to LTC Rolt It is an engineering biography about the life and work of Thomas Newcomen Over the last two centuries the fame of James Watt has eclipsed the efforts of all others Yet Thomas Newcomen was the first to produce a machine capable of providing power other than that derived from man animals or the elements His steam engine was so successful that at least 1500 of his engines were built despite the fact that only three originals survive in Britain Additional notes by coauthor John Allen help to put the book within the context of more recent research
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As general manager for Erwin Tennesseebased Clinchfield Railroad Thomas D Moore found an eightysixyearold vintage 460 tenwheeler steam enginethe Clinchfield No 1 Miraculously the engine had escaped the cutters torch when in the mid1950s the railroad retired its steam fleet shuttered passenger service and embraced the diesel era Moore wanted the No 1 fully restored and its long life on the railswhich had included being the first train to reach the victims of the 1889 Johnstown Pennsylvania floodcelebrated as a goodwill ambassador for the railroad The revived Clinchfield No 1 led beloved excursion trains that visited seven state capitals bringing joy to passengers from the Appalachian Mountains to Tampa Florida Join authors Mark A Stevens and AJ Alf Peoples on the journey of the reallife little engine that could
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This is the first comprehensive history of the steam engine in fifty years It follows the development of reciprocating steam engines from their earliest forms to the beginning of the twentieth century when they were replaced by steam turbines
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Now available in a textonly paperback edition They Made America is a stirring and supremely readable work of historya celebration of the entrepreneurial energy that has fueled this nation since its inception
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Rich with illustrations and line drawings this book provides a comprehensive guide to steam engines Chapters range from Fundamental Principles to Reversing Gears and Lubrication The book also covers subjects such as Twin Oscillating Paddle Engines A Pinnacle Type Engine and Testing of Model Engines
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In antebellum America water used for power ranked in value among such natural resources as agricultural land timber navigable rivers and deposits of coal and metal ores Waterpower available to nearly every community was used to ease many daily burdens and to imporve the living standards of the long succession of pioneer settlements During the prerailroad years waterpower was a crucial factor in the advance of American Industrialization especially in water rich New England Louis Hunter provides here a complete and detailed account of waterpower in the United States from Colonial Times to its gradual decline after 1900 The volume is an important contribution to technological economic and social history The author examines closely the water mills of early settlements and small communities explains the design and construction of various types of waterwheels and discusses the importance of waterpower in the social structure of the time He chronicles carefully the transition from simple waterwheels used primarily for the production of grain and lumber to waterpower used in manufacturing especially for the burgeoning textile industry
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In antebellum America water used for power ranked in value among such natural resources as agricultural land timber navigable rivers and deposits of coal and metal ores Waterpower available to nearly every community was used to ease many daily burdens and to imporve the living standards of the long succession of pioneer settlements During the prerailroad years waterpower was a crucial factor in the advance of American Industrialization especially in water rich New England Louis Hunter provides here a complete and detailed account of waterpower in the United States from Colonial Times to its gradual decline after 1900 The volume is an important contribution to technological economic and social history The author examines closely the water mills of early settlements and small communities explains the design and construction of various types of waterwheels and discusses the importance of waterpower in the social structure of the time He chronicles carefully the transition from simple waterwheels used primarily for the production of grain and lumber to waterpower used in manufacturing especially for the burgeoning textile industry
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