TREATISE ON THE STEAM ENGINE IN ITS APPLICATION TO MINES, MILLS, STEAM NAVIGATION, AND RAILWAYS. By the Artizan Club. EDITED BY JOHN BOURNE, C. E ILLUSTRATED BY THIRTY-THREE PLATES, AND THREE HUNDRED AND FORTY-NINE ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD. NEW EDITION, LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1851. 26x384 DI.R.P. 3-20-46 ΤΟ HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN, THIS TREATISE ON THE STEAM ENGINE BY THE ARTIZAN CLUB, DESCRIPTIVE OF THE STRUCTURE AND PRINCIPLES OF ACTION OF THE GREAT MECHANICAL AGENT WHICH HAS FOUGHT THE BATTLES OF THE EMPIRE, AND NOW SUSTAINS ITS GREATNESS; WHICH BINDS NATIONS TOGETHER IN AMITY, ANNIHILATES DISTANCE, SOFTENS NATIONAL PREJUDICES, AND PROMOTES CIVILISATION; WHICH BRITISH ARTIZANS HAVE BROUGHT TO ITS PRESENT PERFECTION, AND WHICH BRITISH ARTIZANS NOW ASPIRE TO ILLUSTRATE, IS, By Her Majesty's Permission, MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, BY HER MAJESTY'S OBEDIENT SUBJECT AND SERVANT, JOHN BOURNE. |