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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.
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.
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.
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.