The steam engine familiarly explained and illustrated
Subtitle: with an historical sketch of its invention and progressive improvement; its applications to navigation and railways; with plain maxims for railway speculators
By: By the Rev. Dionysius Lardner ... With additions and notes, by James Renwick ... Illustrated by engravings and woodcuts
Edition: 2nd American, from the 5th London, ed., considerably enl.
Publisher: E.L. Carey & A. Hart
Published: 1836
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
Subjects: Steam-engines; Early works to 1850
Notes: 2d London ed. published 1828 with title: Popular lectures on the steam engine.