The John Crerar Library
A list of Books on the History of Industry and industrial Arts

STEAM ENGINEERING 55 Powles, Henry Handley Pridham. L621.18 Q5°9 72070 Steam boilers, their history and development; giving an account of the earliest known examples of steam generators, down to the most modern steam boilers, with descriptions and illustrations of all forms of boilers, and showing how in the course of devel- opment certain types have become persistent, including general remarks on boiler making, and on the performance of different types in practice. By H. H. P. Powles ... . With numerous illustrations and plates. London, A. Constable & Co., ltd., I9°5* XV, 335, [i]p. illus., xv pl. on 8 p., fold. pl. 28cm. “List of books,” p. 321-327. Read, David. 621.09273 R22 4811 Nathan Read: his invention of the multi-tubular boiler and por- table high-pressure engine, and discovery of the true mode of applying steam-power to navigation and railways. A contribu- tion to the early history of the steamboat and locomotive engine, xv,[1],201 p. 11 pl. i por. D. New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1870, pref. i860. Richardson, Alexander. L621.17 R104 87320 The evolution of the Parsons steam turbine. An account of ex- perimental research on the theory, efficiency, and mechanical de- tails of land and marine reaction and impulse-reaction turbines; , a record of progress in the applications of steam turbines; ii, , a description of the manufacture of turbines, and of the works of Messrs. C. A. Parsons and Company, Heaton, and of the Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company, limited, Wallsend-on- Tyne. By Alex. Richardson, .... (With one hundred and seventy-three plates and numerous illustrations in the text.) Lon- don, “Engineering,” 1911. xviii, [2], 264 p. incl. illus., tables, front, (port.), CLXX1II (i.e. 94) pl. (incl. diagrs.) 29-Jx22cra. Most of the plates have illustrations on both sides. Reid, Hugo. 621.1 Lioo 4535 The steam-engine; a popular account of its construction, action, and history; and a description of its various forms; with a sketch of the laws of heat and pneumatics; and a critique on M. Arago’s “Eloge of Watt.” Third edition, revised .... xi,209 p. 40 il. S. London: Groombridge & Sons, 1851. Stuart, Robert. 621.11400 46789 A descriptive history of the steam engine. By Robert Stuart, .... Illustrated by engravings of forty-seven engines. The third edition. London, printed for Knight and Lacey, 1825. [2], vi, [2], 228 p. illus., 48 pl. incl. front. 24cm. With manuscript marginal notes. Plates I and 22 wanting.