Burn Robert S. The Steam Engine: Its History and Mechanism

Fifth edition. — London: Waer, Lock, and Tylie, 1898. — 142 p.In preparing a new edition of The Steam-Engine; its History and Mechanism,” it has been deemed advisable to render it uniform in size and price with the other works in Ward and Lock’s Educational Series, of which it forms a part. This uniformity has been effected without changing the scope of the work as originally designed, and as explained in the Introduction to the First Edition. By careful condensation, and the avoidance of minute and unnecessary details, space has also been obtained for illustrations and descriptions of the most recent novelties in steam mechanism, thus bringing the work up to the latest date. The Author ventures, therefore, to hope that the work, in its improved form, will meet with as liberal a share of public patronage and approval as favoured the first issue, and that it may take a useful, though humble, place among Educational Works.