Author: Thomas BakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Steam-engines
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Steam-engine, Or, The Powers of Flame
Author: Thomas BakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Steam-engines
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Steam Engine; Or, the Powers of Flame. An Original Poem. In Ten Cantos
Author: Thomas BAKER (Civil Engineer.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Steam-engines
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Steam Power on the American Farm
Author: Reynold M. WikPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512808466
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire
Author: Sadi CarnotPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486174549
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
The title essay, along with other papers in this volume, laid the foundation of modern thermodynamics. Highly readable, "Reflections" contains no arguments that depend on calculus, examining the relation between heat and work in terms of heat in steam engines, air-engines, and an internal combustion machine. Translation of 1890 edition.
Power from Steam
Author: Richard L. HillsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521458344
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive history of the steam engine in fifty years. It follows the development of reciprocating steam engines, from their earliest forms to the beginning of the twentieth century when they were replaced by steam turbines.
Entropy and Information
Author: Mikhail V. VolkensteinPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 303460078X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
This is just...entropy, he said, thinking that this explained everything, and he repeated the strange word a few times. 1 ? Karel Capek , “Krakatit” This “strange word” denotes one of the most basic quantities of the physics of heat phenomena, that is, of thermodynamics. Although the concept of entropy did indeed originate in thermodynamics, it later became clear that it was a more universal concept, of fundamental signi?cance for chemistry and biology, as well as physics. Although the concept of energy is usually considered more important and easier to grasp, it turns out, as we shall see, that the idea of entropy is just as substantial—and moreover not all that complicated. We can compute or measure the quantity of energy contained in this sheet of paper, and the same is true of its entropy. Furthermore, entropy has remarkable properties. Our galaxy, the solar system, and the biosphere all take their being from entropy, as a result of its transferenceto the surrounding medium. Thereis a surprisingconnectionbetween entropyandinformation,thatis,thetotalintelligencecommunicatedbyamessage. All of this is expounded in the present book, thereby conveying informationto the readeranddecreasinghis entropy;butitis uptothe readertodecidehowvaluable this information might be.
Reflexions on the Motive Power of Fire
Author: Sadi CarnotPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780936508160
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
POWER FROM WATER AND FIRE
Author: Heinz StraubPublisher: Verlag für Technik und Handwerk
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
In a highly technical age, in which man can tap into forces of inconceivable magnitude from the atom, it is hard to imagine what modest sources of energy were available in earlier times. Yet the first attempt to use steam power dates back two thousand years. – The adventurous history of the discovery and use of this power from water and fire - a power that changed the world and people's lives so decisively – Is described vividly and with great clarity in words and pictures in this non-fiction book. The author gives a gripping account of the inventors' struggle for progress in this still little explored field. James Watt finally achieves the decisive breakthrough with the construction of his steam engine. And soon the first high-pressure steam engines were in operation, steam pumps kept mines free of groundwater, steam hammers shaped metal. Steam carriages rumbled along roads, the locomotive opened vast stretches of land, and the screw steamer ploughed the seas. – Thus, the invention of the steam engine sets a milestone in human history.
Machinery Market
Author: Fire
Author: Stephen J. PynePublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 029574619X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Over vast expanses of time, fire and humanity have interacted to expand the domain of each, transforming the earth and what it means to be human. In this concise yet wide-ranging book, Stephen J. Pyne—named by Science magazine as “the world’s leading authority on the history of fire”—explores the surprising dynamics of fire before humans, fire and human origins, aboriginal economies of hunting and foraging, agricultural and pastoral uses of fire, fire ceremonies, fire as an idea and a technology, and industrial fire. In this revised and expanded edition, Pyne looks to the future of fire as a constant, defining presence on Earth. A new chapter explores the importance of fire in the twenty-first century, with special attention to its role in the Anthropocene, or what he posits might equally be called the Pyrocene.