Engineering Heritage: Highlights from the History of Mechanical Engineering, Volume 2

19th century Armstrong Austhorpe bearing became Bessemer biplane boiler Boulton and Watt British built caloric caloric theory canal carried Cartwright cast iron coal Colliery construction Courtesy cylinder dial diameter digits drive earliest early Eddystone Lighthouse electric Elswick Evans experiments Fairbairn father friction Fulton furnace gauges gear Glasgow glass glider guns heat horizontal idea improved Industrial Revolution industry invented inventors James Watt John Wilkinson Joule Kelvin Lanchester later lathe light London lubrication machine tools machinery manufacture materials measuring mechanical engineering ment metal method mill mining modern monoplane mould Murdoch operation paper Parsons patent plate practical pressure printing problem produced propeller pumps rack Rankine result Robert Fulton rollers rolling rotated Science Museum screw shaft ship shown in Fig Smeaton speed spindle standard steam engine steel successful surface temperature theory Thomson tion took turbine Turbinia vertical Watt's wheel William wooden