Power from Steam: A History of the Stationary Steam Engine

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.

Science & Math

HILLS, Richard L.

History & Philosophy

Cambridge University Press

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.

This volume opens with a series of articles making up a monographic study of the Henry family of Manchester, a dynasty that was active in science, medicine, education and industry from the 1760s to the 1830s. This work is important in studying the relations between science and industry, and not least because it emphasises just how much can be learnt from looking at ’second-rank’ figures in the provinces. The second group of papers pursues topics in the history of 19th-century chemistry and the development of the chemical industry, in particular that dealing with synthetic dyestuffs.

Chemistry and the Chemical Industry in the 19th Century: The Henrys of Manchester and Other Studies (Variorum Collected Studies)

Business & Money

Farrar, Wilfred Vernon

Economics

Routledge

This highly informative book contains some 500 black and white photographs of the various types of windmills and describes their main uses; many of the photographs have not been published before. People do not always realise how much of an influence windmills had on the life and productivity in the world prior to steam. Windmills were not just used in corn milling but for land drainage (here and in The Netherlands); in saw mills, mustard milling, papermaking; oil and colour mills, chalk grinding, flax and barley mills: There is a gazetteer of British windmills and some foreign ones, and a comprehensive glossary and bibliography.

Windmills: a pictorial history of their technology

Landmark Publishing Ltd

Beyer, Peacock - Locomotive Builders to the World

Engineering & Transportation

Patrick, D

Transportation

Venture Publications

Despite its sub-title, The Seven Ages of One Man is not just a book about how one man started the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. It is much more... This is Richard Hills' autobiography - the story of his life, work, passions and relationships, told in seven parts, or ages: The child, born in 1936 into upper middle-class families whose way of life was shattered by the advent of war... The public and prep school boy introduced to engineering, mountaineering and railways at Rose Hill and Charterhouse... The young man enlisted for National Service, only to find more opportunities for... engineering, mountaineering and railways! The Cambridge undergraduate blossoming in faith, buying a Lancia Lambda, and becoming a mountaineering instructor... The fallen climber receiving miraculous healing from gangrene, a convalescence leading to a spell in teaching, restoring the Lancia, and a new interest in the drainage of the fens... The published writer and researcher, and a move to Manchester, becoming the founder and first curator of the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry... The Reverend Doctor, making a new life in Mottram as priest, as author on many aspects of the history of engineering, becoming an authority on the history of papermaking, and finally at the age of 72 finding love and marriage to his beloved Bernice. This is a story not to be missed -- if you thought you knew Richard, you're bound to find out there is more to the man than you imagined.

The Seven Ages of One Man

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

The Choir Press

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