Steam Navigation, Its Rise and Progress, With Authentic Tables of the Extent of the Steam Marine of All Parts of the Globe, Contrasted With the Steam ... of Steam Navigation, and Symington's Inv - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840. Excerpt: ... RISE AND PROGRESS OF STEAM NAVIGATION. CHAPTER I. A Brief Notice Of The Rise And Progress Of Steam Navigation.--History Of The Steam Engine Necessarily Involved In It.--Three Periods Only Requisite To Be Specified To Convey A General Knowledge Of Most Inventions: Origin, First Imperfect AppliCation, And Greatest Improvement.--Hero, Of Alexandria, 120 Years B.c.; Marquess Of Worcester And Newcomen, 1653 To 1705; Watt's Separate Condenser, 1765--The Three Principal Epochs Of The Steam Engine. All The Improvements Of Nineteen CenTuries Insufficient To Render It A Useful Machine, Until Watt's Inventions.--Watt The Genius Of The Steam Engine.--Its Powers, And What It Has Done For England.--Sir Walter Scott And Lord Jeffrey's Eulogiums. A Comprehensive history of Steam Navigation would, unavoidably, embrace a detailed account of those improvements in the engine, which alone led to this application of it. Such an inquiry, however, would far exceed the scope of these observations. Nothing more is intended, as an introduction to its employment in navigation, than to notice, with as much brevity as will distinctly mark its progress, the three principal periods of the Steam Engine:--The earliest record with which we are acquainted; The first and continued, though imperfect and limited, application to useful purposes; and The chief improvements that gave to it its present capacity, and made it spread rapidly among civilized nations. The first mention of what must certainly be called a Steam Engine, inasmuch as motion could be produced by steam, is the idea of Hero, of Alexandria, 120 years B.C., and described in a work called " Spiritalia seu Pneumatica," under the name of the CEolipyle. Though it has no resemblance to the modern Steam Engine, it is a singular fact, ...
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