THE STEAM-ENGINE, ITS HISTORY AND MECHANISM: BEING Descriptions and Fllustrations OF THE STATIONARY, LOCOMOTIVE, AND MARINE ENGINE. for the Use of Schools and Students. BY ROBERT SCOTT BURN, EDITOR OF THE “ILLUSTRATED LONDON DRAWING-BOOK;" “MECHANICS AND MECHANISM ;" ARCHITECTURAL, ENGINEERING, AND MECHANICAL DRAWING-BOOK;" “ILLUSTRATED PRACTICAL GEOMETRY,” ETC. 9 Soloer LONDON: H. INGRAM AND CO., AND W. S. ORR AND CO., AMEN CORNER, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1854. CONTENTS. HISTORICAL NOTICES OF THE APPLICATION OF STEAM, FROM HERO, 130 B.C., Hero's Æloipile, 1. Steam, opinion of the ancients regarding the power of, 3. Blasco de Garay's steam-vessel, 4. Baptista Porta's engine for raising water, 4. Caus', Solo- mon de, engine for raising water, 5. Giovanni Branca's steam-wheel, 6. Worcester's, Marquis of, engine for raising water, 7. Savery's engine for raising water, 11. Pa- pin’s, Denis, steam-engine, 17. Newcomen and Cawley's engine for raising water, 19. Humphrey Potter's invention for working the valves of atmospheric engine, 24. Beighton's gear for working the valves of atmospheric engine, 25. Smeaton's im- provements in the steam-engine, 26. Smeaton's Chacewater engine, 28. patent for steam-engines, 35. Watt’s arrangement with Roebuck for working the patent, 35. Watt's arrangement with Bolton, of Soho, 36. Watt's arrangement of cylinder valves for pumping engines, 39. Watt's mechanism for working the valves, 40. Watt's improved cylinder, 41. Watt's expansive steam-engine, 41. Watt's “ In- dicator,” for ascertaining the power of engine, 44. Watt's single-acting engine, 45. Watt, application of the crank to the engine of, 47. Watt's “sun-and-planet wheels,” 49. Watt, attachment of the beam to the piston-rod in the first engine of, 50. Watt's parallel motion, 50. Watt's throttle-valve, 50. Watt's governor, 50. Watt's spindle or tappet valves for cylinder, 51. Double-acting engine of Watt, 52. Watt's wagon boilers with fittings, 53. Arago's éloge on the character and genius of James Watt, 55, Double cylinder engine, Hornblower's, 59. Cartwright's steam-engine, 61. Leopold's high-pressure engine, 64. Trevethick and Vivian's high-pressure engine, 65. Pumping engine for mines, modern, 66. Double cylinder engine, M‘Naught's, 67. Double cylinder engine for factories, on the marine principle, 68-70. Double cylinder 71. Crank-overhead high-pressure steam-engine, 72. Fairbairn's crank-overhead high-pressure steam-engine, 73. Crosskill's crank-overhead high-pressure steam- engine, 74. Table high-pressure engine, 75. Horizontal steam-engine, high-pressure, 76. Oscillating engine, high-pressure, by Watt, 77. Oscillating engine, high-pres- sure, by Evans, 78. Oscillating engine, high-pressure, by Pope, 79. Pendulous engine, by Joycé, 80. Portable agricultural engine, by Clayton and Shuttleworth, 81. Portable agricultural engine, by Barrett and Exhall, 82. Gough's portable agricultural engine for railway excavation, 82. Portable agricultural engine, by Gough, 83. Gough's portable agricultural steam-pump, 84. Portable agricultural steam-plough, 85. CHAPTER III. DETAILS OF BOILERS AND ENGINES, Haycock boiler, Smeaton's, 86. Butterley boiler, 87. Cornish boiler, 87. Double-fur- paced boiler, 87. French boiler, 88. Galloway's patent boiler, 88. Multitubular boiler, 89. Marine tubular boiler, 90. Earl of Dundonald's boiler, marine, 91. Ver- tical tubular boiler, 91. Feed apparatus to supply water to low-pressure boiler, 92. |
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