A Treatise on the Steam Engine
Subtitle: From the Seventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica
Edition: New Edition, revised and corrected.
Publisher: A. and C. Black
Published: 1846
Place of publication: Edinburgh, Scotland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Notes: Preface dated "Edinburgh April 1846". Folded plates at end, numbered I to XV.
Table of contents: title: Preface to the second edition
pagenum: v; title: Preface to the first edition
pagenum: vii; title: THE STEAM ENGINE
pagenum: 1; label: 1.
pagenum: 3
title: The Era of the Ancients; label: 2.
pagenum: 19
title: The Era of Worcester; label: 3.
pagenum: 58
title: The Era of Watt; label: Part II
pagenum: 100
title: Description of the Modern Steam Engine; title: On Rotatory Steam-engines
pagenum: 186; title: On Steam-engine Boilers
pagenum: 218; title: Description of the Plates
pagenum: 275; title: Index
pagenum: 287; title: Simple form of non-condensing steam engine
label: Plate I; title: High-pressure engine for stationary purposes
label: Plate II; title: Land-engine of 25inch cylinder and five feet stroke
label: Plate III; title: Land-engine, detail of parts
label: Plate IV; title: Condensing engine by Mr M'Naught, sectional elevation
label: Plate V; title: High-pressure engines, Liverpool and Manchester Railway
label: Plate VI; title: High-pressure engines, Liverpool and Manchester Railway
label: Plate VII; title: Great wheel for drawing railway train up inclined plane
label: Plate VIII; title: Cotton mill engines by Mr Fairbairn of Manchester, section
label: Plate IX; title: Cotton mill engines by Mr Fairbairn of Manchester
label: Plate X; title: Cotton mill engines by Mr Fairbairn of Manchester
label: Plate XI; title: Marine engines by Mr Napier, side elevation
label: Plate XII; title: Marine engines by Mr Napier, elevation of the crank end
label: Plate XIII; title: Marine engines by Mr Napier, elevation of the cylinder end
label: Plate XIV; title: Rotatory steam engine
label: Plate XV