An historical and explanatory dissertation on steam-engines and steam-packets
Subtitle: with the evidence in full given by the most eminent engineers, mechanists, and manufacturers, to the select committees of the House of commons; together with the committees' reports, distinguishing and defining safe and unsafe steam-engines ... comprising particulars of the fatal explosions of boilers ... with a narrative, by Isaac Weld, esp. of the interesting voyage of the Thames steam-yacht, from Glasgow, in Scotland, to Dublin and London
By: By Geo. Dodd ...
Contributors: Weld, Isaac, 1774-1856
Publisher: Pub. for the author, by J. Asperne [etc.]
Published: 1818
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Steam-boilers; Early works to 1850; Steam-navigation; History