Energy supply in the earlier industrial era
Publisher: Bookboon.com
Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 9788776815462
Table of contents: title: Content; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. The early late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; title: 2.1. Preamble; title: 2.2. Newcomen’s steam engine in original and more advanced forms; title: 2.3. Fuel for steam power in the early 1800s; title: 3. The Period 1810-1870; title: 3.1. Background; title: 3.2. New applications of coal; title: 3.3. Thermodynamic analysis of early steam locomotives; title: 3.4. Coal production internationally in the mid Nineteenth Century; title: 3.5. Producer gas; title: 3.6. Oil from shale; title: 4. Enter Oil; title: 4.1. Introduction; title: 4.2. The 1860s and 1870s; title: 4.3. Expansion between 1880 and 1900; title: 4.4. The early years of automobile manufacture; title: 4.5. The Mexican oil industry; title: 4.6. Fuel gas usage at this period; title: 5. A glimpse into the ‘future’; title: 6. Concluding remarks; title: 7. References; title: 8. Postscript; title: 9. Endnotes