Author: Patrick Whitehouse
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780715313848
Category : Locomotives
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Nostalgic writing combined with vintage photographs celebrate the unique joys of steam trains.

Author: Marc Horovitz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692238264
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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"A Passion for Steam" describes how small scale, live-steam locomotives work in clear, understandable language. All systems are covered, including boilers, boiler fittings, burners, different fuels, valve gears, different cylinder types, and sundry variations. The second half of the book is a fascinating survey of nearly 100 miniature locomotives, scratchbuilt and commercial, that discusses what makes each one different from its fellows. The book is fully illustrated with hundreds of high-quality drawings and beautiful photographs.

Author: William Rosen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226726347
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401

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"The Most Powerful Idea in the World argues that the very notion of intellectual property drove not only the invention of the steam engine but also the entire Industrial Revolution." -- Back cover.

Author: Hans Halberstadt
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 1567997767
Category : Steam locomotives
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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This useful guide contains first-hand accounts of the engineers of vintage trains, points out historic sites, and features more than 100 color photos of restored working steam trains from all over North America.

Author: John Hannavy
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN: 1399090917
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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A history of the creation and evolution of the mechanism that brought precision to the steam power and changed the world. Power without control is unusable power, and long after the invention of the steam engine, finding ways of applying that power to tasks where consistency was of paramount importance was the ‘Holy Grail’ which many steam engineers sought to find. It was the centrifugal governor which brought precision to the application of steam power, and its story can be traced back to seventeenth-century Holland and Christiaan Huygens’ development of both the pendulum clock and system controls for windmills, and governors are still at the heart of sophisticated machinery today—albeit electronic rather than mechanical. Without the centrifugal governor, precise control over the increasingly-complex machinery which has been developed over the past two centuries would not have been possible. It was the first device to give the engineman the control they needed. As machine speed increased, the governor had to evolve to keep pace with the demands for greater precision. Over a hundred British patents were applied for in the nineteenth century alone for ‘improvements’ in governor design, many of which could be fitted, or retro-fitted, to engines from every large manufacturer. Some enginemen, on taking up new appointments—their jobs depending on the precision and consistency of their engine’s operation—would even request that the governor be replaced with their preferred model. This book, the first to deal with the subject, tells the story of the evolution of the original ‘spinning-ball’ governor from its first appearance to the point where it became a small device entirely enclosed in a housing to keep it clean, and thus hidden from view. Praise for The Governor “A beautiful, well-produced book that any engineering-minded person with a passion for steam engines will be proud to own. It traces the story of attempts to get the speed of steam engines and other machinery under control. . . . The book is lavishly illustrated with many beautiful photographs of some of the author's favourite machines. . . . I found this a gloriously well-produced book which I devoured enthusiastically! I commend it to anyone with a serious interest in mechanical engineering.” —Richard Gibbon O.B.E. C.Eng F.I.Mech.E former Head of Engineering, National Railway Museum

Author: Jory John
Publisher: Random House Studio
ISBN: 0553513389
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19

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Have you ever thought: I have so many problems and nobody even cares? Well, penguins have problems too! Discover them in this hilarious collaboration from Jory John (All my friends are dead. and Quit Calling Me a Monster!) and Lane Smith (The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales)! This penguin has come to tell you that life in Antarctica is no paradise. For starters, it is FREEZING. Also, penguins have a ton of natural predators. Plus, can you imagine trying to find your mom in a big ol’ crowd of identical penguins? No, thank you. Yes, it seems there is no escaping the drudgery of your daily grind, whatever it might be. Or perhaps we’ve just learned that grumps are everywhere. . . . This book is sure to tickle kids’ funny bones and will elicit appreciative sighs from the adults reading it aloud. "We are all Mortimer [the main character in Penguin Problems]." —The New York Times “Bursting with humor.” —Kirkus Reviews “The snark level is cranked up high.” —The Horn Book, Starred “Will be right at home with fans of Jon Klassen’s This Is Not My Hat.” —Booklist “Classic comedy.” —Publishers Weekly “Rib-tickling.” —School Library Journal

Author: Jeffrey W. Schramm
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
ISBN: 0982131372
Category : Diesel locomotives
Languages : en
Pages : 339

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About the Author: Jeff Schramm is an associate professor of history at Missouri University of Science and Technology. --Book Jacket.

Author: Elizabeth E. Burke
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780989819206
Category : Cherokee Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 217

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When Kate Parsons decides to negotiate for her railroad's passage through Cherokee lands personally, she doesn't expect to get kidnapped and find herself attracted to one of her Cherokee captors.

Author: Mirco De Cet
Publisher: Lorenz Books
ISBN: 9780754831334
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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An overview of the different locomotives from British Heritage lines across the country.

Author: Malcolm Clegg
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN: 9781526778604
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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L M S & L N E R Steam Locomotives, is the result of over two decades of photographing steam locomotives in action in many parts of Britain covered by the former LMS and LNER Railway Companies. They were the two largest of the 'Big Four' Railway Companies which operated in Britain between 1923 and 1948. The majority of the photographs were taken during the British Railways era between 1948 and 1968. Although the author Malcolm Clegg has a sizeable collection of steam locomotive photographs taken during this period, the photographs which appear in this book are from the private collection of his lifelong friend and family relative, Mr Peter Cookson (a retired school-master), himself a railway historian, author and amateur photographer, who has kindly provided the photographs for publication in this book. Many of the photographs selected are rare and unusual for a variety of reasons which should appeal to railway historians and steam enthusiasts alike.