The steam engine familiarly explained and illustrated; with an historical sketch of its invention and progressive improvement; its applications to navigation and railways; with plain axioms for railway speculators (1849)
ently made large enoughto supply steam in sufficient abundance; and consequently itbecomes necessary to produce steam in the boiler of a morethan ordinary strength to bear the attenuation which itsuffers in its passage through so many narrow tubes. One of the greatest objections, however, to the…
Steam-engines
Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
