Steam and its uses : including the steam engine, the locomotive, and steam navigation
A popular technical manual on steam power by Dionysius Lardner, published in London by Lockwood & Co. in 1873 for general readers and self-taught engineers. Wood-engraved diagrams show engines, boilers, valves and paddle machinery in section and elevation, with lettered parts, hatched metal and ruled line shading useful as mechanical ornament, cutaway motifs or period engineering texture.
