A New Volume of the ^^International Scientific Series," 



A HISTORY 



Growth of the Steam -Engine. 



By BOBEST H. THUBSTON, A.U., C. E., 



ProfesBor of Mechanical Engineering in the Stevens Institute of Technology, 

 Hoboken, N. J., etc., etc. 



With 163 lUmtraiions^ including 15 P&i'traits^ 



1 vol., 12mo Price, $2.60. 



COlSr'X'KN'XS. 



I. THE STEAM-ENGINE AS A SIMPLE MACHINE. 

 II. THE STEAM-ENGINE A3 A TEAIN OF MECHANISM. 



III. THE DEVELOPMENT OP THE MODERN STEAM-ENGINE. 



IV. and V. THE MODERN STEAM-ENGINE. 

 VL THE STEAM-ENGINE OF TO-DAT. 



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 ftill and carel^il synopsis of the records and traditions relating to 

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

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

 future." — New York Sun. 



''^Frof. 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 



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

 Scientific Series.' " — New York JEJxpress. 



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

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

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



"It gives not only the liistory 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 uid non condensing, all sorts of boilers, etc., with many 

 anecdotes and interesting incidents." — Boston Post. 



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