Author: Charles Frederick PartingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Account of Steam Engines, and Other Models of Machiner
Author: Charles Frederick PartingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Account of steam engines and other models of machinery
Author: Charles Frederick PartingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The Governor
Author: John HannavyPublisher: Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN: 1399090917
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
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
A short account of the steam engine, and of its inventors
Author: George HamiltonAn Historical and Descriptive Account of the Steam Engine
Author: Charles Frederick PartingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Steam-engines
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Steam Engines, Models and Machinery, &c
Author: American Institute of the City of New York. Committee on Steam Engines, Models, and MachineryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Machinery
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
A Popular and Descriptive Account of the Steam Engine
Author: Charles Frederick PartingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Steam-engines
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
List of Works on Steam-engines
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated
Author: Dionysius LardnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Steam-engines
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
A Guide to Model Steam Engines - A Collection of Vintage Articles on the Design and Construction of Steam Engines
Author: VariousPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1528764374
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
This book is a collection of vintage articles on the subject of installing miniature steam engines in model vehicles. Highly-detailed and profusely illustrated, this volume will be of considerable utility enthusiasts with an interest in model engineering, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of related literature. Contents include: “Simple Model Steam Engine Construction”, “Design for a Motor Car type Steam Engine”, “A Model Compound Under-type Steam Engine”, “A Model Compound Under-Type Steam Engine”, “A Model Compound Under-Type Steam Engine”, “Some Interesting Steam Models”, “A Small Steam and Petrol Air-Gas Plant”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on model building.