A treatise on the Cornish pumping engine, in two parts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pole, William, 1814-1900.

Contributor:

Tredgold, Thomas, 1788-1829.

Series:

Making of the modern world

Making of the Modern World

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mine drainage--England--Cornwall (County).

Mine drainage.

Pumping machinery.

Mine pumps.

England--Cornwall (County).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Manufacture:

[London] : W. Hughes.

Other Title:

Steam engine

Appendix G to the new edition of Tredgold on the steam engine and on steam navigation

Place of Publication:

London : J. Weale, 1844.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

[v. 1.] pt. I. Historical notice of the application of the steam engine to the purpose of draining the mines of Cornwall, and of its progressive improvement in that district

[v. 1.] pt. II. Description of the Cornish pumping engine, and of its various peculiarities, as contrasted with the ordinary Boulton and Watt single-acting engine.

Notes:

Half title: Appendix G to the new edition of Tredgold on the steam engine and on steam navigation.

Plates lacking.

Vol. 2 lacking.

Reproduction of original from Goldsmiths' Library, University of London.

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 33705.

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited to licensing agreements. s2005 miunns

Related Work:

Tredgold, Thomas, 1788-1829. Steam engine.

OCLC:

65313734

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.

Bound With:

With: Weale's catalogue of works recently published on the various branches of civil and military engineering, architecture, mechanics, naval architecture and steam navigation. [London : J. Weale, 1844].