EBOOK STEAM STEEL AND ELECTRICITY ***
Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Tonya Allen
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
STEAM STEEL AND ELECTRICITY
By
JAMES W. STEELE
CONTENTS
THE STORY OF STEAM.
What Steam is.--Steam in Nature.--The Engine in its earlier
forms.--Gradual explosion.--The Hero engine.--The Temple-door
machine.--Ideas of the Middle Ages.--Beginnings of the modern
engine.--Branca's engine.--Savery's engine.--The Papin engine
using cylinder and piston.--Watt's improvements upon the
Newcomen idea.--The crank movement.--The first use of steam
expansively.--The "Governor."--First engine by an American
Inventor.--Its effect upon progress in the United
States.--Simplicity and cheapness of the modern engine.--Actual
construction of the modern engine.--Valves, piston, etc., with
diagrams.
THE AGE OF STEEL.
The various "Ages" in civilization.--Ancient knowledge of the
metals.--The invention and use of Bronze.--What Steel is.--The
"Lost Arts.
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