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The Steam Engine

Following the events outlined in Table 4.1 we arrive to the last part of the 17th century. In England, it is the dawn of the Industrial Revolution that was destined to transform the world. [Pg.111]

Industry, however, needed power. The flooding of mines, for example, becomes a serious problem as the available horses are not sufficient to remove the water. Attention to the whole problem of steam and its practical use is becoming more rigorous, and King Charles II creates the post of Master Mechanic to the Royal Household. It is in this atmosphere that the development of the steam engine, outlined in Table 4.2, took place. [Pg.111]

The Savery engine represents the first, probably, commercial steam engine to come to existence using high pressure steam to remove the water from the mines, thus its name. It had a rather limited success however. Exactly how many of these engines were made is unknown whether any of them worked satisfactorily is uncertain. (Cardwell, p.l3) [Pg.111]

1712 Newcomen presents a piston-and-cylinder steam engine. [Pg.111]

1769 Watt patents a new type of steam engine that employs a [Pg.111]


Properties of steam can be divided iato thermodynamic, transport, physical, and chemical properties. In addition, the molecular stmcture and chemical composition of steam are of iaterest. It was at the start of iadustrialization, ca 1763, that thermodynamic relationships were first measured by Watt. A century later, ia 1859, Rankiae pubUshed his Manual of the Steam Engine, which gave a practical thermodynamic basis for the design and performance of steam engines. [Pg.350]

The advent of electric motors, steam turbines, and other drivers has relegated the steam engine to a minor position as an industrial driver. It does have the advantages of reliabihty and operating characteristics that are not obtainable with other drivers but so the disadvantage of bulldness and oily exhaust steam. [Pg.2492]

James Watt doubled the efficiency of the steam engine by introducing the separate condenser in the 1760s and created a new unit, the horse power, to measure its output. In 1784, Oxford brewer Sutton Thomas Wood obtained a patent for using waste steam from an industrial process to drive a steam engine and also to use the exliaust steam or hot water... [Pg.267]

One of the oldest energy control systems is the steam engine speed control device, developed by James Watt, consisting in the regulation of motor speed through input steam flow. This device is purely mechanical, and its physical principle is shown in Figure 1. [Pg.297]

Because the steam engine described is a heat engine of the external-combustion type, the cycle experienced by the working medium can be executed without combustion. In some steam engines, for example, the required input heat is supplied by a nuclear reactor. Stirling engines have been operated on radiant energy supplied by the sun. [Pg.471]

Dickinson, H. W. (1939). A Short History of the Steam Engine. Cambridge, Eng. Cambridge University Press. [Pg.630]

Hills, R. L. (1994). Power from Wind A I listoiy of Windmill Technology. Cambridge Cambridge University Press. Hunter, L. C. (1979). A History of Industrial Power in the United States, Vol. 1 Waterpower in the Century of the Steam Engine. Charlottesville, VA University Press of Virginia. [Pg.699]

Fable or fame Thomas Newcomen, like many inventors who preceded him in the steam revolution, has been clearly overshadowed in historical circles by the far more famous Scotsman, Janies Watt, who remains—incorrectly to some—known as the inventor of the steam engine. Watts engines arrived more than fifty years after Newcomen s successful mechanical works, and were considered improved versions of the Eiiglishman s concepts. But this was precisely the basis of many inventors successes, building upon their predecessors efforts in the normal course of technological advancement. WTiat is irrefutable is that both men, as well as others, can lay claim as pioneering fathers of the Industrial Revolution. [Pg.842]

William Rankme has been credited with many things derived from his brilliant career, with perhaps the most unique being the transition of his empirical work into scientific theories published for the benefit of engineering students. He is considered the author of the modern philosophy of the steam engine and also the greatest among all founders of and contributors to the science of thermodynamics. [Pg.976]

Roll, L. T. C. and Alien,. S. (1997). The Steam Engine of Thomas Newcomen. Ashbourne, UK Landmark... [Pg.1028]

Farcy, J. (1827). A Treatise on the Steam Engine. London Longmans. [Pg.1050]

Storer, J. U. (1969). A Simple History of the Steam Engine. London John Baker. [Pg.1086]

Watkins, G. (1979). The Steam Engine in Histoiy. Derbyshire, Eng. Moorland. [Pg.1086]

At the age of thirty-three. Watt wrote, Of all things in life, there is nothing more foolish than inventing. Just widowed with six children, he had put away his love of science, engineering and fine technical instrumentation to feed his family by contracting to suixiey for the Caledonian canal. Bankruptcy of his financial partner in steam development, John Roebuck, had derailed his efforts to improve the steam engine. [Pg.1218]

The business acumen of Boulton provided profound industrial leverage to the technical creativity of Watt. The success of the steam engine for the rest of... [Pg.1218]


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