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Henry Winram Dickinson

A Short History of the Steam Engine

Henry Winram Dickinson

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English
Cambridge University Press
17 February 2011
History of engineering & technology; Steam engines
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
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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Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   440g
ISBN:   9781108012287
ISBN 10:   1108012280
Series:   Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
Pages:   300
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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