The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated

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Dionysius Lardner

The Steam Engine
Explained and Illustrated

WATT.

Engraved by H. Adlard, from a Drawing by H. Corbould,
taken with the permission of James Watt, Esq.

FROM THE STATUE BY CHANTREY.

London: Taylor & Walton, Upper Gower Street.

THE

STEAM ENGINE

EXPLAINED AND ILLUSTRATED;

WITH
AN ACCOUNT OF ITS INVENTION AND PROGRESSIVE
IMPROVEMENT,

AND ITS APPLICATION TO

NAVIGATION AND RAILWAYS;

INCLUDING ALSO

A Memoir of Watt.

BY

DIONYSIUS LARDNER, D.C.L. F.R.S.
&c. &c.

SEVENTH EDITION,

ILLUSTRATED BY ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD.
 

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR TAYLOR AND WALTON,

28. UPPER GOWER STREET.

MDCCCXL.

London:

Printed by A. Spottiswoode,

New-Street-Square.

TO

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

HENRY LORD BROUGHAM AND VAUX,

FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY,

AND

MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FRANCE,

AS A MARK OF PUBLIC RESPECT

AND

A TESTIMONY OF PRIVATE REGARD,

THIS WORK

INSCRIBED, BY HIS ATTACHED FRIEND,

THE AUTHOR.

ADVERTISEMENT.

The Drawings for several of the Cuts in this Volume have been taken, by the permission of Mr. Weale, from the admirable Plates annexed to the last edition of Tredgold on the Steam Engine and on Steam Navigation. This acknowledgment is especially due for the Illustrations which abound in this Volume.

      London, June, 1840.

LONDON ENTRANCE TO THE BIRMINGHAM RAIL-ROAD.