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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: 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...]
[$]![[picture: Locomotive Boiler]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Evers-SteamAndTheSteamEngine/wm/big/243-Locomotive-boiler-q75-267x200.jpg "[picture: Locomotive Boiler]")
“256. Locomotive Boiler.—All locomotive boilers are of the class called multibar: they consist essentially of the barrel filled with tubes, while the two ends are named respectively the furnace, or fire box, and the smoke box. Boiler [...]
