Timeline of steam power

Steam power developed slowly over a period of several hundred years, progressing through expensive and fairly limited devices in the early 17th century, to useful pumps for mining in 1700, and then to Watt's improved steam engine designs in the late 18th century. It is these later designs, introduced just when the need for practical power was growing due to the Industrial Revolution, that truly made steam power commonplace.

Development phases

Early examples

Towards a workable steam engine

The Newcomen Engine: Steam power in practice

Watt's engine

Improving power

See also

Notes

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  2. 1 2 Thurston, pp 16
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  5. ↑ Thurston, pp 31-41
  6. ↑ Thurston, ch 2
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  8. 1 2 3 Roe, Joseph Wickham (1916), English and American Tool Builders, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, LCCN 16011753. Reprinted by McGraw-Hill, New York and London, 1926 (LCCN 27-24075); and by Lindsay Publications, Inc., Bradley, Illinois, (ISBN 978-0-917914-73-7).
  9. ↑ The "Lap" engine; part of the collection at the Science Museum in London.
  10. ↑ Musson; Robinson (1969). Science and Technology in the Industrial Revolution. University of Toronto Press. p. 72.
  11. 1 2 Thomson, Ross (2009). Structures of Change in the Mechanical Age: Technological Invention in the United States 1790-1865. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-8018-9141-0.
  12. ↑ Cowan, Ruth Schwartz (1997). A Social History of American Technology. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 74. ISBN 0-19-504606-4
  13. ↑ Young, Robert: "Timothy Hackworth and the Locomotive"; the Book guild Ltd, Lewes, UK (2000) (reprint of 1923 ed.)
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  16. ↑ Thomson, Ross (2009). Structures of Change in the Mechanical Age: Technological Invention in the United States 1790-1865. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-8018-9141-0.
  17. ↑ Walter, John (2008). "The Engine Indicator" (PDF). pp. xxv–xxvi.
  18. ↑ Hunter, Louis C.; Bryant, Lynwood (1991). A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1730-1930, Vol. 3: The Transmission of Power. Cambridge, Massachusetts, London: MIT Press. p. 123. ISBN 0-262-08198-9.
  19. ↑ Day, Lance and McNeil, Ian (Editors) 2013, Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology Routledge, ISBN 0-203-02829-5 (P. 694)
  20. ↑ McNeil, Ian (1990). An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-14792-1.
  21. ↑ "World's First Steam Driven Airplane" Popular Science, July 1933, detailed article with drawings
  22. ↑ George & William Besler (April 29, 2011). The Besler Steam Plane (YouTube). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw6NFmcnW-8: Bomberguy.
  23. ↑ "The British Steam Car Challenge". Steamcar.co.uk. 1985-08-18. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
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