250 YEARS OF STEAM. Alan Bloom

1981. Hard cover with dust cover; 195 pages. Very good condition. Over 1kg

Deals with all aspects of steam including stationary engines, marine engines, road locomotives, steam carriages and steam wagons.

A very wide-ranging study of the application of steam power across the ages recording the years of the railway locomotives, from Stephenson and the Rainhill Trials, through World War II and the Beeching axe, to the subsequent railway museums; Brunel and his famous iron ship The Great Britain, in a chapter on marine engines; the great days of the traction engines and the fall, and rise, of the great showmen's road locomotives. Also includes the many applications of steam for stationary engines.