A New Volume of the "International Scientific Series." 



A HISTORY 



OP THE 



Growth of the Steam - Engine. 



By P.0BEET H. THURSTON, A. II., C. E., 



Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Stevens Institute of Technology, 



Hohoken, N. J., etc., etc. 



With 163 Illustrations, including 15 Portraits. 



1 vol., 12mo Price, $2.50. 



CONTENTS. 



I. THE STEAM-ENGINE AS A SIMPLE MACHINE. 

 II. THE STEAM-ENGINE AS A TRAIN OF MECHANISM. 



III. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODERN STEAM-ENGINE. 



IV. and V. THE MODERN STEAM-ENGINE. 

 VI. THE STEAM-ENGINE OF TO-DAY. 



VII. and VIII. THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE STEAM-ENGINE. 



"This is the most exhaustive, lucid, and trustworthy account of a most interesting 

 subject. There are two features of the work to which we would direct particular at- 

 tention. One is the full and careful synopsis of the records and traditions relating to 

 the first discovery and gradual development of the essential principle of heat-engines. 

 The other is the chapter outlining the direction and limitations of improvement in the 

 future."— New York Sun. 



"Prof. Thurston almost exhausts his subject; details of mechanism are followed by 

 interesting biographies of the more important inventors. If, as Prof. Thurston con- 

 tends, the steam-engine is the most important physical agent in civilizing the world, 

 its history is a desideratum, and the readers of the present work will agree that it 

 could have a no more amusing and intelligent historian than our author." — Boston 

 Gazette. 



" One of the most interesting and valuable volumes in Appletons'' ' International 

 Scientific Series. 1 " — New York Express. 



" The work is all that it professes to be — a brief encyclopedia of the genesis and 

 development of that great instrument which is to-day the right hand of human power. 

 It is a work of real erudition and much practical use." — Philadelphia North American. 



" It gives not only the history of the steam-engine, but of the several inventors of 

 all countries who have created and improved it, with descriptions of all kinds and 

 varieties of engines and their improvements, stationary, pumping, locomotive, steam- 

 boats, propellers, iron-clads, fire-engines, beam, horizontal, oscillating, single, coupled, 

 direct, compressed, high and low pressure, link-valves, slide-valves, ball and poppet- 

 valves, lever valves, condensing and noncondensing, all sorts of boilers, etc., with many 

 anecdotes and interesting incidents." — Boston Post. 



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