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قراءة كتاب A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine
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A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine
الصفحة رقم: 3
href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@35916@[email protected]#FNanchor_1_1" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">[1] “History of the Steam-Engine,” London, 1824. “Anecdotes of the Steam-Engine,” London, 1829.
[2] “Treatise on the Steam-Engine,” London, 1827.
[3] “Life, Times, and Scientific Labors of the Second Marquis of Worcester,” London, 1865.
[4] “Lives of Boulton and Watt,” London, 1865.
[5] “Life of James Watt,” D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1859. “Mechanical Inventions of James Watt,” London, 1854.
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. | ||
| The Steam-Engine as a Simple Machine. | ||
| PAGE | ||
| Section I.—The Period of Speculation—From Hero to Worcester, b. c. 200 to a. d. 1650 | 1 | |
| Introduction—the Importance of the Steam-Engine, 1; Hero and his Treatise on Pneumatics, 4; Hero’s Engines, b. c. 200, 8; William of Malmesbury on Steam, a. d. 1150, 10; Hieronymus Cardan on Steam and the Vacuum, 10; Malthesius on the Power of Steam, a. d. 1571, 10; Jacob Besson on the Generation of Steam, a. d. 1578, 11; Ramelli’s Work on Machines, a. d. 1588, 11; Leonardo da Vinci on the Steam-Gun, 12; Blasco de Garay’s Steamer, a. d. 1543, 12; Battista della Porta’s Steam-Engine, a. d. 1601, 13; Florence Rivault on the Force of Steam, a. d. 1608, 15; Solomon de Caus’s Apparatus, a. d. 1615, 16; Giovanni Branca’s Steam-Engine, a. d. 1629, 16; David Ramseye’s Inventions, a. d. 1630, 17; Bishop John Wilkins’s Schemes, a. d. 1648, 18; Kircher’s Apparatus, 19. | ||
| Section II.—The Period of Application—Worcester, Papin, and Savery | 19 | |
| Edward Somerset, Marquis of Worcester, a. d. 1663, 19; Worcester’s Steam Pumping-Engines, 21; Jean Hautefeuille’s Alcohol and Gunpowder Engines, a. d. 1678, 24; Huyghens’s Gunpowder-Engine, a. d. 1680, 25; Invention in Great Britain, 26; Sir Samuel Morland, a. d. 1683, 27; Thomas Savery and his Engine, a. d. 1698, 31; Desaguliers’s Savery Engines, a. | ||