Download or read book Account of Steam Engines and Other Models of Machiner written by Charles Frederick Partington and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Account of steam engines and other models of machinery written by Charles Frederick Partington and published by . This book was released on 1840* with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Governor written by John Hannavy and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the creation and evolution of the mechanism that brought precision to the steam power and changed the world. Power without control is unusable power, and long after the invention of the steam engine, finding ways of applying that power to tasks where consistency was of paramount importance was the ‘Holy Grail’ which many steam engineers sought to find. It was the centrifugal governor which brought precision to the application of steam power, and its story can be traced back to seventeenth-century Holland and Christiaan Huygens’ development of both the pendulum clock and system controls for windmills, and governors are still at the heart of sophisticated machinery today—albeit electronic rather than mechanical. Without the centrifugal governor, precise control over the increasingly-complex machinery which has been developed over the past two centuries would not have been possible. It was the first device to give the engineman the control they needed. As machine speed increased, the governor had to evolve to keep pace with the demands for greater precision. Over a hundred British patents were applied for in the nineteenth century alone for ‘improvements’ in governor design, many of which could be fitted, or retro-fitted, to engines from every large manufacturer. Some enginemen, on taking up new appointments—their jobs depending on the precision and consistency of their engine’s operation—would even request that the governor be replaced with their preferred model. This book, the first to deal with the subject, tells the story of the evolution of the original ‘spinning-ball’ governor from its first appearance to the point where it became a small device entirely enclosed in a housing to keep it clean, and thus hidden from view. Praise for The Governor “A beautiful, well-produced book that any engineering-minded person with a passion for steam engines will be proud to own. It traces the story of attempts to get the speed of steam engines and other machinery under control. . . . The book is lavishly illustrated with many beautiful photographs of some of the author's favourite machines. . . . I found this a gloriously well-produced book which I devoured enthusiastically! I commend it to anyone with a serious interest in mechanical engineering.” —Richard Gibbon O.B.E. C.Eng F.I.Mech.E former Head of Engineering, National Railway Museum
Download or read book A short account of the steam engine and of its inventors written by George Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Steam Engine written by Charles Frederick Partington and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steam Engines Models and Machinery c written by American Institute of the City of New York. Committee on Steam Engines, Models, and Machinery and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Guide to Model Steam Engines A Collection of Vintage Articles on the Design and Construction of Steam Engines written by Various and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of vintage articles on the subject of installing miniature steam engines in model vehicles. Highly-detailed and profusely illustrated, this volume will be of considerable utility enthusiasts with an interest in model engineering, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of related literature. Contents include: “Simple Model Steam Engine Construction”, “Design for a Motor Car type Steam Engine”, “A Model Compound Under-type Steam Engine”, “A Model Compound Under-Type Steam Engine”, “A Model Compound Under-Type Steam Engine”, “Some Interesting Steam Models”, “A Small Steam and Petrol Air-Gas Plant”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on model building.
Download or read book The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated written by Dionysius Lardner and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book List of Works on Steam engines written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Drive models for steam engines and hot air engines written by Volker Koch and published by Verlag für Technik und Handwerk. This book was released on with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many modellers – especially beginners – ask themselves when the first steam engine or hot-air engine model is finished and working: and now? After all, such machines were originally intended to do work and enable mechanical activities. Early on, the suppliers of toy steam engines therefore came up with the idea of producing drive models in which the engines could deliver their power in a meaningful way. But many of these suppliers no longer exist, many machines are only available in antiquarian form and the supply of finished drive models is limited – and besides, making your own is much more exciting anyway! This is also the opinion of Volker Koch, who describes in this book numerous self-built propulsion machines of the most diverse types – for the most part based on historical models – and how to build them himself. With simple means – mostly from the scrap box – and little use of machinery, small works of art are created here that make the operation of steam engines and hot-air engines even more interesting. Sketches of the various models help to find the right dimensions and to achieve a successful result. From the content: • General remarks about drive models • Use of tools • Materials • Sources of supply • Working techniques for building operating and other functional models • Replica of a Doll/Fleischmann forge • Reconstruction of a drive model "Man at the grindstone" based on a Fleischmann model • Man at the well • The “wood sawyer” • Simple windmill • Hammer mill • Transmission • Blacksmith of own design • Scissor grinder with spraying spark
Download or read book An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Steam Engine written by Charles Frederick Partington and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Steam Engine: Comprising a General View of the Various Modes of Employing Elastic Vapour as a Prime Mover in Mechanics; With an Appendix of Patents and Parliamentary Papers Connected With the Subject A labourer working ten hours per day, can raise in one minute a weight equivalent to K 3750 pounds. One foot high, or about sixty cubic feet of water in the same time; while the power of a horse working eight hours per day, may be correctly averaged at pounds. Smeaton states, that this animal, by means of pumps, can raise two hundred and fifty hogsheads of water ten feet high in an hour. It is a well known fact, also, that men when trained to running, are able on the average of several days being taken, to out strip the fleetest horse; and yet it will be seen from the above statement, that his force, if properly applied, is at least six times that of the most powerful man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Model Steam Engines written by Bob Gordon and published by Shire Publications. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Model engineering was popularized by pioneering steam enthusiasts, and rapidly grew into an exciting worldwide hobby for amateur engineers. This book describes how model steam engines work, outlines the development of the machine tools used to build the models, and investigates the seven different categories of model engines, which include models built to support patent applications, and those built purely for pleasure. The author, himself a model steam locomotive driver, also delves into the possible pitfalls and practicalities of scale model engineering. Generously illustrated, this is guaranteed to interest any aspiring engineer, as well as collectors of steam engines.
Download or read book A short account of the Steam Engine and of its inventors etc written by George HAMILTON (M.D., of Falkirk.) and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Building a Portable Steam Engine written by Tony Webster and published by Crowood. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical, instructional book describes the construction of a model of the Lampitt portable steam engine, which dates back to 1862, and which provided rotative power to drive threshing machines, circular saws, feed mills and other farm machinery. The construction of every component is described in precise detail and the text is supported by many helpful step-by-step photographs. In addition, useful advice is provided about obtaining materials and about the tools that are required to equip a model-engineering workshop. Accordingly, the information provided in this fascinating book will enable the reader to construct not only the Lampitt engine but also many other engineering models in the future. When the reader has finished building 'the Lampitt' he will, in effect, have completed an engineering apprenticeship, and will have a model engine of which he can be proud and which fully reveals the skills that he has learned. Fully illustrated with 142 step-by-step colour photographs.
Download or read book The Steam Engine Familiarly Described with a Brief Account of Its History and Uses written by and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Popular and Descriptive Account of the Steam Engine written by Charles Frederick Partington and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Power from Steam written by Richard L. Hills and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-08-19 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive history of the steam engine in fifty years. It follows the development of reciprocating steam engines, from their earliest forms to the beginning of the twentieth century when they were replaced by steam turbines.
