American Steam Engine Builders 1800-1900

by Kenneth L. Cope

Here is the companion volume to Ken Cope's previous works on machine tools, carriage making machinery and cooperage machinery. Factories filled with the machinery described in the previous works, from the smallest drill presses to giant planers, could not have existed without a reliable and sufficient power source. The steam engine was that source, from the start of the industrial revolution to the general availability of electric power distributed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931626227
• ISBN13: 9781931626224
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Astragal Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 11.0"