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Reading edition
A PRIMITIVE USE OF THE ANIMAL MACHINE THAT IS STILL IN VOGUE IN MANY EUROPEAN COUNTRIES Frontispiece
HORSE AND CATTLE POWERFacing p. 32
CRANES AND DERRICKS" 38
A BELGIAN MILK-WAGON" 56
TWO APPARATUSES FOR THE UTILIZATION OF ANIMAL POWER" 60
WINDMILLS OF ANCIENT AND MODERN TYPES" 68
WATER WHEELS" 72
HYDRAULIC PRESS AND HYDRAULIC CAPSTAN" 76
THOMAS SAVERY'S STEAM ENGINE" 86
DIAGRAMS OF EARLY ATTEMPTS TO UTILIZE THE POWER OF STEAM" 88
A MODEL OF THE NEWCOMEN ENGINE" 92
WATT'S EARLIEST TYPE OF PUMPING-ENGINE" 96
WATT'S ROTATIVE ENGINE" 100
JAMES WATT" 108
OLD IDEAS AND NEW APPLIED TO BOILER CONSTRUCTION" 114
COMPOUND ENGINES" 118
ROTARY ENGINES" 122
THE ORIGINAL PARSONS' TURBINE ENGINE AND THE RECORD-BREAKING SHIP FOR WHICH IT IS RESPONSIBLE" 128
GAS AND OIL ENGINES" 136
AN ELECTRIC TRAIN AND THE DYNAMO THAT PROPELS IT" 174
WILDE'S SEPARATELY EXCITED DYNAMO " 178
THE EVOLUTION OF THE DYNAMO" 180
VIEW IN ONE OF THE POWER HOUSES AT NIAGARA" 186
ELECTRICAL TRANSFORMERS" 198
THOMAS A. EDISON AND THE DYNAMO THAT GENERATED THE FIRST COMMERCIAL INCANDESCENT LIGHT" 228
A FLINT-AND-STEEL OUTFIT, AND A MINER'S STEEL MILL" 248
THE LOCOMOTIVE "PUFFING BILLY" AND A MODERN COLLIERY TROLLEY" 258