A Popular and Descriptive Account of the Steam Engine (Classic Reprint): Comprising a General View of the Various Modes of Employing Elastic Vapour as ... and Parliamentary Papers Connected with T

Partington, Charles Frederick

ISBN 10: 1330143787 ISBN 13: 9781330143780

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from A Popular 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; And on Steam Navigation; With an Appendix of Patents and Parliamentary Papers Connected With That Subject

The use of water as an impelling power, both for the turning of machinery and other purposes connected with the useful arts, appears to have been known at a very early period. Vitruvius describes a variety of machines for this purpose, the earliest of which were employed merely to raise a portion Of the fluid by which they were impelled. The most simple method of applying this element as a mechanical agent evidently con sisted in the construction of a wheel, the periphery of which was composed of a number of float boards. This, on being exposed to the action Of a running stream, was afterwards employed to give motion to a variety of mills, and is at the present time employed in almost every species Of mac chinery.

Among the most celebrated hydraulic machines, we may enumerate the Machine Of Marly. This, when first constructed, appears to have produced one-eighth Of the power expended, so that seven eighths Of its power were usually lost. This mis'

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Excerpt from A Popular 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; And on Steam Navigation; With an Appendix of Patents and Parliamentary Papers Connected With That Subject

The great practical use of machinery to a commercial country is so well known, and its superiority to animal force so universally acknowledged and felt in every branch of our manufactures, that but little apology will be necessary for introducing to the man of science and the practical artizan a work, the avowed object of which is to render the uses and general principles of the steam engine familiar to every class of persons. That it has enabled England to support a proud pre-eminence, both in arts and political power, is equally apparent; and, by the aid of its gigantic arm, we are now enabled to traverse the ocean and facilitate the transit of our manufactured goods by land, to an extent far beyond what its most sanguine well-wishers could ever have calculated on. The railroads which are now spreading so rapidly over Great Britain, like the arterial ramifications in the human system, bestowing fertility and civilisation in their path, alone form an era in the history of the progress of human improvement.

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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.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330143787
• ISBN 13: 9781330143780
• Einband: Rústica
• Anzahl der Seiten: 346