Book of Donmon Teith

This is the first comprehensive history of the steam engine in fifty years. It follows the development of reciprocating steam engines, from their earliest forms

A history of the creation and evolution of the mechanism that brought precision to the steam power and changed the world. Power without control is unusable powe

In 1710 an obscure Devon ironmonger Thomas Newcomen invented a machine with a pump driven by coal, used to extract water from mines. Over the next two hundred y