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![[picture: Front Cover of Evers' `Steam and the Steam Engine']](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Evers-SteamAndTheSteamEngine/tn/000-Front-Cover-q75-346x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover of Evers' `Steam and the Steam Engine']")
Pictures and text extracts from Steam and the Steam Engine: Land, Marine, and Locomotive by Henry Evers, LL.D., Fourth Edition, 1880.
The first preface is dated 1872, which I take for the date of the first edition and presumably of at least most of the illustrations. The book was in the “Collins Advanced Science” series; I doubt that it will still be considered advanced science today!
Title: Steam and the Steam Engine
Published by: Wm. Collins, Sons, & Co., Limited
Date: 1880
Total items: 9
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Great Western express engine]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Evers-SteamAndTheSteamEngine/wm/big/238-Great-Western-Express-Engine-q75-333x200.jpg "[picture: Great Western express engine]")
“General Description of a Locomotive.—This is one of the Great Western express engines, running on eight wheels; the large wheel is the driving wheel, the others are called the leading and triling wheels; the chimney is seen on the right hand, the furnace on the left, and the barrel of the boiler with the tubes in the middle. Upon the top of the furnace is [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Plate I.---Section of Locomotive Engine [coloured letters]]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Evers-SteamAndTheSteamEngine/wm/big/240-Plate-I-Section-of-Locomotive-Engine-colouredletters-q75-356x200.jpg "[picture: Plate I.---Section of Locomotive Engine [coloured letters]]")
Plate I.—Section of Locomotive Engine [coloured letters]
This is a version of Plate I in which I have coloured the letters blue, to try to make it easier to follow the description, which I have also repeated here: [more...] [$]
![[picture: Front Cover of Evers' `Steam and the Steam Engine']](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Evers-SteamAndTheSteamEngine/wm/big/000-Front-Cover-138x200.jpg "[picture: Front Cover of Evers' `Steam and the Steam Engine']")
Front Cover of Evers’ ‘Steam and the Steam Engine’
The front cover says that the book is part of Collins’ Advanced Series. [$]
![[picture: [Festiniog Railway Locomotive]]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Evers-SteamAndTheSteamEngine/wm/big/242-Tank-Locomotives-q75-621x200.jpg "[picture: [Festiniog Railway Locomotive]]")
[Festiniog Railway Locomotive]
“In the example here given, the engine is on two trucks [bogies]. The one end can be turned so that the double sets of wheels are not in the same straight line. In practice it is found that bogie carriages bring a great strain on curves. In the “Little Wonder,” which works on the Festiniog Railway [in Wales], constructed to a gauge of 1 ft. 11½ in., [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Plate I.---Section of Locomotive Engine]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Evers-SteamAndTheSteamEngine/wm/big/240-Plate-I-Section-of-Locomotive-Engine-q75-356x200.jpg "[picture: Plate I.---Section of Locomotive Engine]")
Plate I.—Section of Locomotive Engine
This is a cross-section through a steam engine (i.e. a railway locomotive, or a railroad engine as they say in North America). The description is a little hard to follow, so I made a [...]in colour to make them stand out. The description (also reproduced there) is as follows: [more...] [$]
Pictures and text extracts from Steam and the Steam Engine: Land, Marine, and Locomotive by Henry Evers, LL.D., Fourth Edition, 1880.
The first preface is dated 1872, which I take for the date of the first edition and presumably of at least most of the illustrations. The book was in the “Collins Advanced Science” series; I doubt that it will still be considered advanced science today!
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