The young steam engineer's guide
Subtitle: containing an investigation of the principles, construction and powers of steam engines, a description of a steam engine on new principles, rendering it much more powerful, more simple, less expensive, and requiring much less fuel than an engine on the old construction, a description of a machine, and its principles for making ice and cooling water in large quantities, in hot countries, to make it palatable and wholesome for drinking, by the power of steam, invented by the author, a description of other patented inventions : illustrated with two engravings
By: by Oliver Evans
Series: Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature -- no. 19121.2; Making of the Modern World
Publisher: H.C. Carey & I. Lea
Published: 1805
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
Subjects: Steam-engines
Notes: Issued also under title: The abortion of the young steam engineer's guide.

"Appendix: containing a concise account of the invention and improvement of steam engines / extracted from Dobson's edition of the encyclopedia, with notes and additions by the author ; to which is added Mr. John Stevens' letters on the author's improvements, with the answers thereto": p. [81]-139.

Article XVIII, Useful inventions by different persons (p. 74-80) not included in this edition.

Yale University Beinecke Library's copy imperfect: plates wanting.

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 19121.2.