The History of Steam Engine Development

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For the steam buffs, the book by Charles T. Porter (of the "Porter-Allen" steam engine and governor fame) titled "Engineering Reminiscences contributed to 'Power' and 'American Machinist', 1908 is a good reference (available for free download in PDF form from Google books at this link:

http://books.google.com/books?id=np...&resnum=1&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false