THE TEXTILE MILL ENGINE VOLUME 1
Written by George Watkins
Published by David & Charles
in 1970
ISBN: 071534983X
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- INDUSTRY
- STEAM ENGINES
- INDUSTRIAL HISTORY
THE TEXTILE MILL ENGINE VOLUME 1
Written by George Watkins.
Stock no. 1322492
1st.
1970.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. David & Charles Library of Textile History. ISBN: 071534983X. Spine bumped. Pale page browning to endpapers. Dustwrapper is price-cut, edge rubbed with a tear to top edge of front panel.
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction
- BEAM ENGINES
- House-Built Single
- Independent
- Compounded
- McNaught
- Large Examples
- Pusher Compound
- Pushers
- Other Compounds
- Side Levers
- VERTICAL ENGINES
- HORIZONTAL ENGINES
- Simple Expansion
- Single Tandem Slide Valve
- Corliss and Slide Valves
- Corliss Valves
- Large Single Tandems
- Drop Valves
- TWIN TANDEMS
- Compound
- Triple Expansion
- MODERNISING
- DESIGN CHANGES
- Acknowledgements
- Indexes: Engine Types
- Makers