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EWING, J. A - The Steam Engine and Other Heat Engines

Title: The Steam Engine and Other Heat Engines
Description: Cambridge: The University Press, 1894. Hardcover. First edition: Original dark green boards in very good condition, 9.00 x 6.00 incehs approx, corners bowed, gilt lettering to spine, mild creasing to top and bottom of spine, a few bubbles to the cloth on the front and back boards, 'uncut' pages edges no inscriptions, generally sound, xiv, 400 pages including index, copiously illustrated with black and white diagrams, Chapters are headed , The Early History of the Steam Engine, Elementary Theory of Heat Engines, Properties of steam and elementary theory of the steam-engine, Further points in the theory of heat-engines, Actual behaviour of steam in the cylinder, The testing of Steam-engines, Compoound expansion, Valves and valve-gears, Governing, The Work of the Crank-Shaft, The Production of steam - boilers, Forms of the Steam Engine, Air Gas and Oil Engines.. Very Good .

Keywords: Engineering Power

Price: GBP 30.00 = appr. US$ 42.84 Seller: Horsham Rare Books
- Book number: 12050

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