Energy supply in the earlier industrial era
Publisher: Bookboon
Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 9788776815462
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The early late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; title: Preamble; title: Newcomen’s steam engine in original and more advanced forms; title: Fuel for steam power in the early 1800s; title: The Period 1810-1870; title: Background; title: New applications of coal; title: Thermodynamic analysis of early steam locomotives; title: Coal production internationally in the mid Nineteenth Century; title: Producer gas; title: Oil from shale; title: Enter Oil; title: Introduction; title: The 1860s and 1870s; title: Expansion between 1880 and 1900; title: The early years of automobile manufacture; title: The Mexican oil industry; title: Fuel gas usage at this period; title: A glimpse into the ‘future’; title: Concluding remarks; title: References; title: Postscript; title: Endnotes