Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOLUME I
- CHAPTER I EARLY CORNISH ENGINES
- CHAPTER II RICHARD TREVITHICK, SEN
- CHAPTER III SMEATON AND WATT
- CHAPTER IV EARLY LIFE OF TREVITHICK
- CHAPTER V PLUNGER-POLE PUMP AND WATER-PRESSURE ENGINE
- CHAPTER VI HlGH-PRESSURE WHIM-ENGINE
- CHAPTER VII CAMBORNE COMMON ROAD LOCOMOTIVE
- CHAPTER VIII PATENT OF 1802, AND LONDON LOCOMOTIVE
- CHAPTER IX TRAM AND RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES
- CHAPTER X PARTNERSHIP, AND EARLY HIGH-PRESSURE ENGINES
- CHAPTER XI HIGH-PRESSURE STEAM-DREDGER
- CHAPTER XII THAMES DRIFTWAY
- CHAPTER XIII IRON TANKS
- CHAPTER XIV SHIPS OF WOOD AND IRON
- CHAPTER XV PROPELLING VESSELS BY STEAM
- CHAPTER XVI RECOIL ENGINE AND TUBULAK BOILER
- INDEX TO VOLUME I
- Plate section
CHAPTER III - SMEATON AND WATT
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOLUME I
- CHAPTER I EARLY CORNISH ENGINES
- CHAPTER II RICHARD TREVITHICK, SEN
- CHAPTER III SMEATON AND WATT
- CHAPTER IV EARLY LIFE OF TREVITHICK
- CHAPTER V PLUNGER-POLE PUMP AND WATER-PRESSURE ENGINE
- CHAPTER VI HlGH-PRESSURE WHIM-ENGINE
- CHAPTER VII CAMBORNE COMMON ROAD LOCOMOTIVE
- CHAPTER VIII PATENT OF 1802, AND LONDON LOCOMOTIVE
- CHAPTER IX TRAM AND RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES
- CHAPTER X PARTNERSHIP, AND EARLY HIGH-PRESSURE ENGINES
- CHAPTER XI HIGH-PRESSURE STEAM-DREDGER
- CHAPTER XII THAMES DRIFTWAY
- CHAPTER XIII IRON TANKS
- CHAPTER XIV SHIPS OF WOOD AND IRON
- CHAPTER XV PROPELLING VESSELS BY STEAM
- CHAPTER XVI RECOIL ENGINE AND TUBULAK BOILER
- INDEX TO VOLUME I
- Plate section
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- Life of Richard TrevithickWith an Account of his Inventions, pp. 43 - 51Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011First published in: 1872