Abstract
WE have before us a very striking instance of the value of a popular knowledge of mechanical philosophy.
A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine.
By Robert H. Thurston, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Stevens' Institute of Technology, &c. (London: C. Kegan Paul and Co., 1878.)
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A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine.. Nature 19, 381–382 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019381a0
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