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. 323
the drainage of mines, 61. Accidental discovery of condensation by jet, 65.
Further improvements by Humphrey Potter and Beighton, 67, 68. Description
of Papin's engine, 71. First experiment of Watt, and subsequent improvements, 73. Dr. Black's theory of latent heat, 76. Watt's method of condensation, 76. Further improvements of Watt, 77. Description of Watt's singleacting engine, 80. The cold-water pump, 86. The hot-water pump, 86.
Erection of a specimen engine at Soho, and gradual demand for them, 89. The
single-acting engine inapplicable to manufactures, 91. The double-acting engine, 92. Invention of the parallel motion, 95. Introduction of the rotatory
motion, 100. The fly-wheel, 104. The governor, 105. The throttle -ialve, 105.
The eccentric, 111. The D valve, 113. The four-way cock, 115. Methods for
ascertaining the level of water in the boiler, 118. The engine made to feed its
own boiler, 120. Waste of water prevented, 121. The steam gauge, 122.
Barometer gauge, 123. The damper, 125. Methods proposed for preventing the
waste of fuel, 128. Mr. Brunton's furnace described, 130. Mr. Oldham's modification of the self-regulating furnace, 132. Improvements by Hornblower and
Woolf, 134. Description of the improvements of Mr. Cartwright, 142. Highpressure engines, 145. Leupold's engine described, 147. Construction of the
first high-pressure engine by Messrs. Trevithick and Vivian, 148. First application of the steam engine to propel carriages on railroads, 151. How applied
to navigation, 242. Marine engine; its form and arrangement, 243. Mr. Hall's
engine described, 248. Mr. Howard's patent engine described, 253.
Steam gauge, the, 122.
Steam navigation, incredulity which existed respecting, 159. The limit of its
present powers, 264.
Steam vessels, their average speed, 265. Their average consumption of fuel, 265.
Proportion of their power to their tonnage, 266. Speed of post-office packets,
268. Iron steam vessels, 269. American vessel called the " Cigar Boat," its
great speed, 270.
Stephenson's, Mr., description of an engine constructed by him, 164. Premium
awarded to this engine by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Directors, 170,
His method of dividing the flues, 179.
Stephenson and Lock, Messrs., appointed by the Directors of the Liverpool and
Manchester Railroad to make reports on the merits of various railroads, 167.
Sun and planet wheels, 101.
T.
Thermometer, description of, 24..Throttle valve, use of, 104.
Traction, force of, on a railroad, 192.
rredgold, 70.
Trevithick and Vivian, Messrs., construct the first high-pressure engine used in
this country, 148.
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United States, steam communication with, 274.