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 anddefining safe and unsafe steam-engines, and their proper management, comprising particulars of the fatal explosions of boilers at Norwich, Northumberland, Wells-street, and in America : concluding with a narrative, by Isaac Weld of the interesting voyage of the Thames steam-yacht, from Glasgow, in Scotland, to Dublin and London
By: by Geo. Dodd ; illustrated by two elegant engravings of steam-yachts.
Contributors: Weld, Isaac, 1774-1856.
Publisher: published for the author, by J. Asperne... [et al.]
Published: 1818
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Steam-boilers -- Early works to 1850.; Steam-navigation -- History.