The steam engine familiarly explained and illustrated; with an historical sketch of its invention and progressive improvement;
Dionysius Lardner's popular technical primer on the steam engine, its history and workings, issued in Philadelphia in 1836 by E. L. Carey & A. Hart for general readers and self-taught mechanics. Engraved plates show numbered cross-sections of cylinders, boilers, valves and pistons, hatched and tinted to mark water, steam and cut metal, useful as diagram vocabulary, figure-label typography and plate layout.
