The steam engine familiarly explained and illustrated; with an historical sketch of its invention and progressive improvement; its applications to navigation and railways; with plain maxims for railway speculators. By the Rev. Dionysius Lardner ... With additions and notes by James Renwick ...

INDEX.
A.
Atmospheric air, elastic force of, 23.
Atmospheric pressure rendered available as a mechanic agent by Denis Papin, 48.
Atmospheric engine, first conception of by Newcomncn, 61. Description of, 63.
Advantage of over that of Savery, 69.
B.
Barometer, the, 21.
Barometer gauge, the, 123.
Belidor, 133.
Birmingham and London railroad, probable advantages to be derived from, 206.
Black, Dr., his doctrine of latent heat, 76.
Blasco de Garay, his contrivance to propel vessels, 42.
Blinkensop, Mr., constructs a locomotive engine, 161.
Boiler, methods for showing the level of water in the, 118. Its power and propoitions, 297.
Bolton, Matthew, his connexion with Watt, 88.
- and Watt, Messrs., immense expenditure of, in bringing their engines into
Ilse, 91.
Booth, Mr., his method of using tubes to conduct heated air through locomotive
boilers, 176. His report to the directors of the Liverpool and Manchester railw ay on the apparent discrepancies of Messrs. Walker and Rastrick's estimate of
locomotive power, 189.
Braithwait and Ericson, Messrs., their " Novelty" described, 175.
Branca Giovanni, his machine for propelling a wheel by a blast of steam, 45.
Brewster, Dr., 79.
Brunton, Mr., his improved furnace described, 130.
C.
Canals, transport on, 208. Experiments with boats on, 209. Comparison of with
railroads, 210.
Cartwright, Rev. Mr., description of his improvements in the steam engine, 142.
Cawley, John, 61.
~' Century of Inventions" by the Marquis of Worcester, 46.
Chapman, Messrs., obtain a patent for working a locomotive by means of
chain, 162.
Church, Dr., his steam carriage, 239.
Cohesion, attraction of, 32.
Condensation of solids, 23.
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