"The Steam Engine Familiarly Explained and Illustrated" by Dionysius Lardner is a comprehensive explanation about the United Kingdom's train lines. He discusses the engineering behind this impressive set of railways and how it connected the island kingdom with colonies abroad. His anticipation for all the progress this machinery can do is palpable in the pages of this book which allows modern readers an interesting look at the past.

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subtitle: With an Historical Sketch of Its Invention and Progressive Improvement: Its Applications to Navigation and Railways: With Plain Maxims for Railway Speculators; Original Published by: E.L. Carey and A. Hart in 1836 in 365 pages; Subjects: Steam-engines; Steam navigation; History / United States / General; History / United States / State & Local / General; Technology & Engineering / Mechanical; Technology & Engineering / Machinery; Technology & Engineering / History; Transportation / Railroads / General; Transportation / Railroads / History;

Biographies of more than 100 Irish scientists (or those with strong Irish connections), in the disciplines of Chemistry and Physics, including Astronomy, Mathematics etc., describing them in their Irish and international scientific, social, educational and political context. Written in an attractive informal style for the hypothetical 'educated layman' who does not need to have studied science. Well received in Irish and international reviews.

Reproduction of the original: The Steam Engine Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Dionysius Lardner

In How Invention Begins, Lienhard reconciles the ends of invention with the individual leaps upon which they are built, illuminating the vast web of individual inspirations that lie behind whole technologies. He traces, for instance, the way in which thousands of people applied their combined inventive genius to airplanes, railroad engines, and automobiles. As he does so, it becomes clear that a collective desire, an upwelling of fascination, a spirit of the times--a Zeitgeist--laid its hold upon inventors. The thing they all sought to create was speed itself. Likewise, Lienhard shows that when we trace the astonishingly complex technology of printing books, we come at last to that which we desire from books--the knowledge, the learning, that they provide. Can we speak of speed or education as inventions? To do so, he concludes, is certainly no greater a stretch than it is to call radio or the telephone an "invention." Throughout this marvelous volume, Lienhard illuminates these webs of insight or inspiration by weaving a fabric of anecdote, history, and technical detail--all of which come together to provide a full and satisfying portrait of the true nature of invention.