Download or read book The Development of the Philosophy of the Steam engine written by Robert Henry Thurston and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Development of the Philosophy of the Steam Engine written by Robert Henry Thurston and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Development of the Philosophy of the Steam-Engine: An Historical Sketch The following sketch of the development of the philosophy of the modern steam-engine, and of the various heat-engines embodying the same principles, was originally prepared by the Author in the year 1883-4, and was presented to the British Association for Advancement of Science, when holding their session of 1884 on this side the Atlantic, at Montreal. The paper was given a very favorable place, and was later selected for incorporation, in full, in the transactions of that year. It has now been revised, and with slight modifications, and with the additional matter of the last page or two, is now reprinted for more general circulation. The present seems a very appropriate time for the publication of this sketch in a more permanent and more accessible form. 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 The Development of the Philosophy of the Steam engine written by Robert H. Thurston and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Development of the Philosophy of the Steam engine written by Robert Henry Thurston and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 68 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.
Download or read book A History of the Growth of the Steam Engine written by Robert H. Thurston and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the Growth, of the Steam-Engine This little work embodies the more generally interesting portions of lectures first written for delivery at the Stevens Institute of Technology, in the winter of 1871 - '72, to a mixed audience, composed, however, principally of engineers by profession, and of mechanics; it comprises, also, some material prepared for other occasions. These lectures have been rewritten and considerably I extended, and have been given a form which is more appropriate to this method of presentation of the subject. The account of the gradual development of the philosophy of the steam-engine has been extended and considerably changed, both in arrangement and in method. That part in which the direction of improvement during the past history of the steam-engine, the course which it is to-day taking, and the direction and limitation of that improvement in the future, are traced, has been somewhat modified to accord with the character of the revised work. The author has consulted a large number of authors in the course of his work, and is very greatly indebted to several earlier writers. 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 The Life and Legend of James Watt written by David Philip Miller and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life and Legend of James Wattoffers a deeper understanding of the work and character of the great eighteenth-century engineer. Stripping away layers of legend built over generations, David Philip Miller finds behind the heroic engineer a conflicted man often diffident about his achievements but also ruthless in protecting his inventions and ideas, and determined in pursuit of money and fame. A skilled and creative engineer, Watt was also a compulsive experimentalist drawn to natural philosophical inquiry, and a chemistry of heat underlay much of his work, including his steam engineering. But Watt pursued the business of natural philosophy in a way characteristic of his roots in the Scottish “improving” tradition that was in tension with Enlightenment sensibilities. As Miller demonstrates, Watt’s accomplishments relied heavily on collaborations, not always acknowledged, with business partners, employees, philosophical friends, and, not least, his wives, children, and wider family. The legend created in his later years and “afterlife” claimed too much of nineteenth-century technology for Watt, but that legend was, and remains, a powerful cultural force.
Download or read book A Descriptive History of the Steam Engine written by Robert Stuart and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Manual of the Steam Engine Structure and theory written by Robert Henry Thurston and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Growth of the Steam engine written by Robert Henry Thurston and published by N.Y.: D. Appleton. This book was released on 1878 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Manual of the Steam engine written by Robert Henry Thurston and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Essay of the Nature and Application of Steam written by M. A. Alderson and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A New Theory of the Steam Engine written by G. De Pambour and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A New Theory of the Steam Engine: And the Mode of Calculation by Means of It, of the Effective Power, &C. Of Every Kind of Steam Engine, Stationary or Locomotive In our Treatise on Locomotive Engines, the first edition of which appeared in the beginning of 1835, was published the basis of a new theory of the steam engine. We then limited ourselves to showing its application to locomotives, merely announcing that it was no less indispensable for calculating with exactitude both the effects and the proportions of stationary steam engines of every kind. The memoir of which we now offer an analysis, and which waread by parts at the Institute Royale of France, from February till the close of the year, 1837, has for its object to give a farther development of that theory, and to extend it to the various systems of steam engines in use. It consists of three parts, namely: - Part i. - Proofs of the inexactitude of the ordinary methods of calculation, used to determine the effects or the proportions of steam engines; and a succinct exposition of the method proposed. Part II. - General formula; for the calculation of the effects, &c. of rotative, stationary or locomotive, high or low pressure, expansive or unexpansive, condensing or uncon densing steam engines, according to the proposed theory. Part III. - Special application of these formula; to the divers systems of steam engines in use. 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 Existence and Machine written by Fabio Grigenti and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-21 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this work is to provide a preliminary analysis of a much more far-reaching investigation into the relationship between technology and philosophy. In the context of the contemporary German thought, the author compares the different positions of Karl Marx, Martin Heidegger, Ernst and Friedrich Jünger, Arnold Gehlen and Gunther Anders. The term “machine” is used precisely to mean that complex material device assembled in the last quarter of the 18th century as a result of the definitive modern refinement of certain fundamental technologies, i.e. metallurgy, precision mechanics and hydraulics. The “machine” discussed here arrived on the scene of man’s history when the processes of spinning and weaving were entrusted to semi-automatic means; when the water wheels used in mills, hitherto always made of wood, were supplanted by the metal levers of the steam engine; and especially when the steam engine was connected to the weaving frames, to the metalworking hammers, and to other machines used to manufacture other machines in an endless reiteration of assemblies and applications, the enormous outcome of which is what subsequently came to be described as “mass production”. The philosophers discussed here were also dealing with the type of machine described above and in their works she we can identify three model images of this idea of machine. These images have been drawn on at various times, also outside the realms of philosophy, and they still provide the backdrop for our knowledge of the machine, which has circulated in a great variety of languages.
Download or read book A History of the Growth of the Steam engine written by Robert Henry Thurston and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Steam Engine Its History and Mechanism written by Robert Scott Burn and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Steam Engine; Its History and Mechanism: Being Descriptions and Illustrations of the Stationary, Locomotive, and Marine Engine, for the Use of Schools and Students Before entering upon the consideration of the historical and mechanical details of the steam-engine, it will be necessary to explain as briefly as possible the nature and properties of steam. It is but just, however, to state, that the new theory of heat, now being submitted to the test of experiment, will modify very much the theory of the steam-engine. Until the new views, however, have been conclusively affirmed, it would be premature here to specify them; we shall therefore confine ourselves to a statement of the theory of the steam-engine as generally received. When a quantity of water is heated until it arrives at a certain fixed temperature, an elastic fluid or aqueous vapour is evolved; this is called steam, and resembles in many of its properties common air. Like air, it is elastic, capable of being reduced in bulk by compression; the pressure which it exerts in the vessel into which it is compressed being exactly in proportion to the amount of compression. (See volume on Natural Philosophy in this series.) Like air, steam is also capable of an increase of volume or bulk; this expansion reducing the pressure on the vessel in which it is allowed to expand just in proportion to the amount of expansion. 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.
