nice historic steam engine book online

[chbeyer]

hi,

in 1908 Conrad Matschoss, a german engineer decided to write a book about the development of the steam engine so far. The book is quite unique and available online (fully legal no more copyrights on the material). If you are looking for inspiration on steam engines this is a great source. The book is in german but there are countless drawings in good qualitiy so it should be interesting even if you don't throw the text in an online translator.

The link:

http://www.digitalis.uni-koeln.de/Matschossd/matschossd_index.html

The first 3xx pages are more theoretical and about atmospherique engines, so maybe less interesting, the watt era starts at page 339. The book is available in pdf chunks, numbered on the left hand of the window.

And

http://www.digitalis.uni-koeln.de/Matschossd/matschossd_inhalt_2.html

For the second part.

Hope you like it ...

cheers
christoph

 

[peatoluser]

Yep, definately like it, especialy the drawings of the early marine steam engines.

yours
Peter

 

[chbeyer]

Hi Pat,

glad you like the book it appears on ebay.de and online bookstores frequently but usually costs up to 300,- $ so I prefer the online book to.

I have an OCR'ed pdf file somewhere on my harddrive(s) which makes it not only searchable but you could also cut-and-paste the text into an online translator like 'translate.google.com'.

Of course some deeper research on german language is more of an intelectual challenge but if you are interested in the file send me a PM ...

cheers
christoph