Engines
CURR, John
The Coal Viewer and Engine Builder's Practical Companion
Treatise of 1797 on the application of an iron railroad system using flat-tyred vehicles for use in coal mining. The work covers the permanent way and the fixed steam engine, illustrated with plans and diagrams.
DICKINSON, H.W. & JENKINS, R.
James Watt and the Steam Engine
The Memorial Volume Prepared for the Centenary of the Watt Centenary Commemoration at Birmingham 1919
DICKINSON, H.W.; RUSSELL, Percy; ALLEN, J.S. & HILLS, J.G.B.
Thomas Newcomen - Engineer 1663/4 - 1729
FAREY, John
A Treatise on the Steam Engine - Historical, Practical and Descriptive
Volumes One & Two
Classic 1827 detailed work on the development of the steam engine in two parts, the second of which was only published as a modern printing.
FRENCH, James Weir (ed.)
Modern Power Generators - Steam, Electric and Internal Combustion and their applications to present-day requirements [1908]
Two fine volumes detailing engines at the time of publication in 1908. Descriptions supported by drawings and diagrams throughout, together with coloured sectional card models.
