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Engineering: a large double-chamber steam engine, with a flywheel. Coloured drawing.
Reference: 46092i
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Engineering: a large double-chamber steam engine, with a flywheel. Coloured drawing.
Reference: 46110i
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Engineering: a large double-chamber steam engine, with a flywheel. Coloured drawing.
Reference: 46109i
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Science and the steam engine, 1790-1825 / by D.S.L. Cardwell.
Donald S. L. CardwellDate: 1972
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Ship-building: plan and side elevation of a paddle-steamer (top), and the steam engine (below). Engraving.
Reference: 44492i
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Engineering: a steam engine, with a pump irrigating fields. Coloured lithograph, [post 1875].
Reference: 45370i
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Engineering: a steam engine, and drying chambers. Wood engraving by E. Jewitt, 1856.
Date: 1856Reference: 45483i
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Hydraulics: a Newcomen style steam engine in a building driving a waterpump. Engraving.
Reference: 45281i
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The early works of Willard Gibbs in applied mechanics : comprising the text of his hitherto unpublished Ph.D. thesis and accounts of his mechanical inventions / assembled by Lynde Phelps Wheeler, Everett Oyler Waters & Samuel William Dudley.
Josiah Willard GibbsDate: [1947]
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Hydraulics: pumps, and a steam-engine. Engraving by J. Moffat after J. Farey, ca. 1813.
John FareyDate: [1813?]Reference: 45343i
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Drawing of 4 horse power Steam Engine for Retreat, by Garrett, Marshall and Co, Leeds
Date: 8 February 1869Reference: RET/2/1/12/1
Part of: The Retreat Archive
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Watt, James, junior (1769-1848), engineer, son of the steam engine pioneer James Watt (1736-1819)
Date: 1791-1830Reference: MS.7826/52-55
Part of: Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries
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Printing: section and details of the Bramah numerator press for banknote production (above), steam-engine (below). Engraving by J. Pass.
Date: 1812Reference: 40621i
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Engineering: a steam-engine, showing the water-supply and condensing chamber. Coloured lithograph by Day and son, 1851.
Date: 1851Reference: 45496i
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Types of steam-driven vehicles and flying machines. Colour process print after Robert Seymour, ca. 1830.
Robert SeymourDate: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 36878i
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Machines à vapeur; aperçu de leur état actuel, sous les points de vue de la mécanique et de l'industrie, pour conduire à la solution accomplie du problème que présentent ces machines. Avec un supplément donnant la théorie mathématique rigoureuse des machines a vapeur, fondée sur la nouvelle théorie générale des fluides / [Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński].
Józef Maria Hoene-WrońskiDate: 1829
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Machinery: a pile driver, a fire engine, and a steam engine. Engraving by J. W. Lowry after P. Barlow.
Barlow, P., Jr.Date: 1834Reference: 45470i
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Engineering: a polishing machine (top), and a walking machine (below). Etching.
Gordon, David, Esq.Date: [1834]Reference: 45495i
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Science as history : the story of man's technological progress from steam engine to satellite / translated from the German by Alan G. Readett.
Heinz GartmannDate: [1960]
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Men hauling excavated soil up a shaft in a bucket suspended from a rope, driven by a steam hoist. Wood engraving, 1868.
Date: 1868Reference: 36584i
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Longitudinal section of the Boulton & Watt engine erected at the East London Water Works, Old Ford / Thomas Wicksteed ; G. Gladwin.
Wicksteed, ThomasDate: 1842Reference: 46136i
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A coachman with a whip and a woman with a kettle: the man mistrusts anything using steam (implying steam trains). Pencil and ink wash by S. Jenner, ca. 1830.
Jenner, Stephen, 1796-Date: [1830?]Reference: 560838i
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Denis Papin : sa vie et son oeuvre (1647-1714) / par Baron Ernouf.
Alfred-Auguste ErnoufDate: 1883
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Specification of John Dale : generating and applying steam.
Dale, JohnDate: 1854
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A shaving machine powered by steam. Coloured etching by R. Seymour.
Robert SeymourReference: 30953i

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Engineering: a large double-chamber steam engine, with a flywheel. Coloured drawing.

Engineering: a large double-chamber steam engine, with a flywheel. Coloured drawing.

Engineering: a large double-chamber steam engine, with a flywheel. Coloured drawing.

Science and the steam engine, 1790-1825 / by D.S.L. Cardwell.

Ship-building: plan and side elevation of a paddle-steamer (top), and the steam engine (below). Engraving.

Engineering: a steam engine, with a pump irrigating fields. Coloured lithograph, [post 1875].

Engineering: a steam engine, and drying chambers. Wood engraving by E. Jewitt, 1856.

Hydraulics: a Newcomen style steam engine in a building driving a waterpump. Engraving.

The early works of Willard Gibbs in applied mechanics : comprising the text of his hitherto unpublished Ph.D. thesis and accounts of his mechanical inventions / assembled by Lynde Phelps Wheeler, Everett Oyler Waters & Samuel William Dudley.

Hydraulics: pumps, and a steam-engine. Engraving by J. Moffat after J. Farey, ca. 1813.

Drawing of 4 horse power Steam Engine for Retreat, by Garrett, Marshall and Co, Leeds

Watt, James, junior (1769-1848), engineer, son of the steam engine pioneer James Watt (1736-1819)

Printing: section and details of the Bramah numerator press for banknote production (above), steam-engine (below). Engraving by J. Pass.

Engineering: a steam-engine, showing the water-supply and condensing chamber. Coloured lithograph by Day and son, 1851.

Types of steam-driven vehicles and flying machines. Colour process print after Robert Seymour, ca. 1830.

Machinery: a pile driver, a fire engine, and a steam engine. Engraving by J. W. Lowry after P. Barlow.

Engineering: a polishing machine (top), and a walking machine (below). Etching.

Science as history : the story of man's technological progress from steam engine to satellite / translated from the German by Alan G. Readett.

Men hauling excavated soil up a shaft in a bucket suspended from a rope, driven by a steam hoist. Wood engraving, 1868.

Longitudinal section of the Boulton & Watt engine erected at the East London Water Works, Old Ford / Thomas Wicksteed ; G. Gladwin.

A coachman with a whip and a woman with a kettle: the man mistrusts anything using steam (implying steam trains). Pencil and ink wash by S. Jenner, ca. 1830.

Denis Papin : sa vie et son oeuvre (1647-1714) / par Baron Ernouf.

Specification of John Dale : generating and applying steam.

A shaving machine powered by steam. Coloured etching by R. Seymour.