Steam-engines
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Specification of William Wood
Really useful engines
Small engines and boilers
Fact in fiction?
Treatise on the steam engine
World History for Dummies
Steam power and British industrialization to 1860
Steampunk!
Thermodynamics of the steam-engine and other heat-engines
James Watt, inventor of a steam engine
A treatise on navigation by steam
The Steam Engine (Inventions That Shaped the World)
The most powerful idea in the world
The twilight of world steam
Steam engines
Specification of William Johnson
The most powerful idea in the world
A history of the growth of the steam-engine
Specification of Richard Willcox
A history of industrial power in the United States, 1780-1930
A study of the continuous steam engine indicator
Oh No! Train Can't Go!
Making Simple Model Steam Engines
Early inventions
On the law of condensation of steam
Steam and the steam engine
Specification of William Churchill Dempsey
American Steam Locomotives
Popular lectures on science and art
Design of a high-speed steam engine
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