The steam engine and gas and oil engines
Inbunden bok.
Mycket gott skick. A book for the use of students who have time to make experiments and calculations. Macmillan, London 1899 (first edition). (viii) 646 (2) pages in a solid well preserved red cloth hard cover, only with small traces of shelf wear. The color of the spine is slightly faded. Pages are clean and fairly bright, apart from a (very) few which are very lightly smudged. Notes in pencil exists, but yet again, on very few pages. Binding is tight and solid. Calculations, diagrams, tables and detailed illustrations in black and white appears frequently throughout the text. --- WIKI (edited): John Perry (1850 – 1920) was a pioneering engineer and mathematician from Ireland. Perry became professor of mechanical engineering at Finsbury Technical College. Perry was elected president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1900 and served as president of the Physical Society of London from 1906 to 1908. In the early stages of his career, Perry worked as Lord Kelvin's assistant at the University of Glasgow. Perry later challenged Lord Kelvin's assumption of low thermal conductivity inside the Earth, and thus disputing Kelvin's estimate that the Earth was only 20–400 million years old. Perry suggested that the interior of Earth was (partly) fluid, an idea the scientific community wouldn't accept until much later.
