Contributed by John W. Stephens. John Lord, Capital and Steam Power 1750-1800 London, 1923. Good history of the economic aspects of the early steam engine. Engineer and Artist, his life and works . 327 pp including some pictures and tables.
Parts are fairly technical.
Thompson Westcott, The Life of John Fitch, inventor of the steamboat Philadelphia, 1857. 415 pages, about 10 engravings. Oliver Evans, The Abortion of the Young Steam Engineer's Guide , 1805. 139 pages, tables and illustrations. Sadi Carnot, Reflections on the Motive Power of Heat and on Machines Fitted to Develop that Power , Translated by R.H. Thurston, New York, 1890.