Abstract
THE author of this book holds the first place among those who many years ago made the locomotive an object of scientific study. His famous work on railway machinery is still of prime importance, holding as it does an honoured place in many drawing offices. The present work consists of two ponderous volumes of some 800 pages each, and claims to be a comprehensive, accurate, and clearly written text-book, fully abreast of all the recent developments in the principle, performance, and construction of the steam engine. This no doubt is a very large claim to make for any work, but when one remembers who the author is, one is bound to admit that no one is more capable of carrying out so important a scheme.
The Steam Engine: a Treatise on Steam Engines and Boilers.
By Daniel Kinnear Clark (London, Glasgow, Edinburgh and New York: Blackie and Sons, Limited, 1892.)
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LOCKYER, N. The Steam Engine: a Treatise on Steam Engines and Boilers. Nature 48, 51–52 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048051a0
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