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CONTENTS

• Preface
• Forward
• PART ONE: FLUID DISPLACEMENT DEVICES.
  • Philo of Byzantium
  • Heron of Alexandria--A Treatise on Pneumatics
  • Heron's Automata
  • The Thermoscope and Air Thermometer--Batolomeo Teoioux
  • Santorio Santorrii
  • Robert Fludd
  • The Dutch Weather Glass
  • Otto Guerick
  • Richard Townly
  • Perpetual Motion Clocks--C. Drebble
  • Thomas Tyme
  • Daniello Antonini
  • Antoine Martini
  • Althanase Kircher
  • Water Pumping--Solar pumps, G della Porta
  • Isaac de Caus
  • B. F. Belidor
  • R. A. Fessenden
  • Pumping with Fire--Robert D'Acres
  • Montgolfier brothers
  • The Fluidyne pump
  • Overbalancing Engines--Guilaune Amontons
  • Thomas Parker
  • Mark Brunel
  • Cagniard-Latour
  • P. A. Kuhne
  • Marble engine
  • Liquid piston engine
  • Liquid piston engine with rotary displacer
  • Notes
• PART TWO: Ventilating Furnaces, Smoke Jacks and Hot Air Balloons
  • Ventilating Furnaces
  • The Smoke Jack--use in China
  • musical toys
  • Leonardo de Vinci
  • John Wilkins
  • Vittoria Zonca
  • Samual Pepys
  • Count Rumford
  • J. Prosser
  • John Braithwaite
  • J. Payne
  • The Solar Chimney--I. Cabaney
  • Solar plant at Manzanares
  • A. R. Bennett
  • Hot Air Balloons--Albertus Magnes
  • Giovana de Fontana
  • Laurenco de Gusmao
  • The Montgolfier brothers
  • Notes
• PART THREE: Some Early Designs.
  • Thomas Bewly
  • Henry Wood
  • Thomas Mead
  • James Glazebrook
  • Charles Tetly
  • George Lilley
  • James White
  • John Barber
  • John Dumbell
  • Sadi Carnot
  • Notes
• PART FOUR: Furnace Gas Engines.
  • Sir George Cayley--Engine built by William Chapman
  • Letter to Nicholson's Journal
  • comments on Stirling's engine
  • Neil Arnott
  • Goldsworthy Gurney
  • Bromton Hall engine
  • 1837 patent
  • The Furnace Gas Engine--Roper
  • Edwards & Co
  • Shaw
  • Wenham
  • Rider
  • Bucket
  • Pulsometer Engine Co.
  • Brown
  • Leavitt
  • Benier
  • Trewhella
  • The Constant Pressure Engine--Brayton
  • L. Simon
  • The Constant Pressure Turbine--Tournaire
  • J. Bourne
  • Parsons
  • F. Stolze
  • Rankin Kennedy
  • The Fumic Impeller
  • Notes
• PART FIVE: Displacer Type Air Engines
  • Displacer Type Hot Air Engines
  • The Regenerative or Stirling Cycle Engine
  • Heating and Cooling in High Temperature-differential Engines--Bauschaum
  • Young & Kirk
  • H. Essex
  • Napier & Rankine
  • G. Mann
  • Parkinson & Crossly
  • The Philips Air Engine
  • Effects of Cooling
  • Heating and Cooling in Low Temperature-differential Engines--I. Kolin
  • J. Senft
  • Pressurization
  • Examples of Link work in Air Engines--The bell crank
  • Laubereau
  • Leman
  • W.H Bailey
  • Stenburg
  • Louis Heinrici
  • Ernst Heinrici
  • Lochmann
  • A.E & H. Robinson
  • Delamater Iron Works
  • American Machine Co
  • F.F Slocomb
  • Remington Machine Co
  • Erwin Welch
  • Fanning Manufacturing Co.
  • D.W Van Rennes
  • A. Koerber
  • The Britannia Co
  • H.F Smith
  • The Yoke Drive
  • N. V. Philips
  • Philips Rhombic Drive
  • Philips variable-phase drive
  • Scotch Yoke drive
  • Eccentric drives
  • Wells intermittent drive
  • Lost motion drive--Wells
  • low temperature engine
  • Rotary Displacers--Trewhella
  • Gloy
  • C. Fortier
  • Ernst Heinrici
  • Diaphragm Pistons-- J.H Tange
  • Rolling Diaphragms--Philips roll sock seal
  • Notes
  • Illustrations and Advertisements.
• PART SIX: Free Piston and Free Displacer engines.
  • Diaphragm Type Engines--Chipperfield
  • Merrick
  • Martini artificial heart
  • Harwell TMG
  • Postle engine
  • Beale Free piston engine
  • Ringbom engine--Ossian Ringbom
  • modified Ringbom
  • single cylinder Ringbom
  • Pendulum engine
  • Wagster erector mechanism
  • Matini Amplifying Machine
  • Notes
• PART SEVEN: John Ericsson and Open Cycle Engines.
  • Ericsson's Caloric Engines--Flame engine
  • 1826 patent
  • letter to the I.C.E
  • method of raising steam
  • Rainhill locomotive trials
  • 1833 engine
  • 1838 engine
  • 1847 engine
  • 1851 patent
  • The Caloric ship "Ericsson"
  • 1855 patent
  • 1856 patent
  • 1858 Engine
  • 1860 patent
  • 1880 patent
  • T. Via
  • Tom Thumb Engine
  • Notes
• Appendix A: Review of pamphlet; The Caloric engine. by John Ericsson.
• PART EIGHT: The Compression Engine.
  • C. Franchot--French & English patents
  • C. Siemens--improvements in steam engines
  • Steam Air and Gas Engine of 1860
  • A.K Rider--open cycle engines of 1871
  • compression engine of 1875
  • Hayward-Tyler--description of mode of working
  • problems in casting parts
  • engine data
  • used in blowing church organ
  • Australian Rider-Ericsson Co.
  • N.V Philips engines--Z drive engines
  • swash plate engines
  • association with Fords
  • The wobble plate drive
  • The swash plate drive
  • Notes
• PART NINE: Vacuum Engines
  • Vacuum Engines with Internal Burners--S. Brown
  • D. Gordon
  • Vacuum Engines with External Burners--L.B Lawrence
  • R.M Lowne
  • Hardy & Padmore
  • A.R Weisz
  • Spiers & Holm
  • W.J Leary
  • E. Plank
  • G. Carette
  • O.Z Frazier
  • W. Honsel
  • Notes
• PART TEN: Heat Pumps and Air Compressors.
  • Stirling Cycle Refrigerating Machines--William Thomson
  • James Stirling
  • A. Kirk
  • Davy Postle
  • I. Lundgard
  • The Philips-Stirling refrigerator
  • Vuileumier Refrigerating Machines--R. Vuilemier
  • Philips-Vuilemier machines
  • Cold Air Machines--Gorrie
  • Windhausen
  • Giffard
  • Bell-Coleman machine used aboard the "Strethleven"
  • Air Compressors--J. Jameson
  • W. West
  • Deutsche Continental Gas
  • Notes
• Bibliography

Code No. 009568, 331 pages, ISBN 0952641712, $90.00

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