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![[picture: Front Cover of Evers' `Steam and the Steam Engine']](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Evers-SteamAndTheSteamEngine/tn/000-Front-Cover-q75-346x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover of Evers' `Steam and the Steam Engine']")
Pictures and text extracts from Steam and the Steam Engine: Land, Marine, and Locomotive by Henry Evers, LL.D., Fourth Edition, 1880.
The first preface is dated 1872, which I take for the date of the first edition and presumably of at least most of the illustrations. The book was in the “Collins Advanced Science” series; I doubt that it will still be considered advanced science today!
Title: Steam and the Steam Engine
Published by: Wm. Collins, Sons, & Co., Limited
Date: 1880
Total items: 12
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Locomotive Boiler]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Evers-SteamAndTheSteamEngine/wm/big/243-Locomotive-boiler-q75-267x200.jpg "[picture: Locomotive Boiler]")
“256. Locomotive Boiler.—All locomotive boilers are of the class called multibar: they consist essentially of the barrel filled with tubes, while the two ends are named respectively the furnace, or fire box, and the smoke box. Boiler [...] three-eighths or half an inch in thickness; these form the barrel, which has a diameter varying from three feet to four feet three inches in different boilers, and consists of three or six plates for each boiler, and their joints are arranged to give as much strength as possible. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Plate I.---Section of Locomotive Engine [coloured letters]]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Evers-SteamAndTheSteamEngine/wm/big/240-Plate-I-Section-of-Locomotive-Engine-colouredletters-q75-356x200.jpg "[picture: Plate I.---Section of Locomotive Engine [coloured letters]]")
Plate I.—Section of Locomotive Engine [coloured letters]
This is a version of Plate I in which I have coloured the letters blue, to try to make it easier to follow the description, which I have also repeated here: [more...] [$]
![[picture: Sharp, Brothers, And Co.'s Engine]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Evers-SteamAndTheSteamEngine/wm/big/239-Sharp,Brothers,and-Co's-Engine-q75-310x200.jpg "[picture: Sharp, Brothers, And Co.'s Engine]")
Sharp, Brothers, And Co.’s Engine
“The annexed illustration will give a much better idea of the locomotive engine and boiler than the last one.” (p. 241) [more...] [$]
![[picture: Front Cover of Evers' `Steam and the Steam Engine']](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Evers-SteamAndTheSteamEngine/wm/big/000-Front-Cover-138x200.jpg "[picture: Front Cover of Evers' `Steam and the Steam Engine']")
Front Cover of Evers’ ‘Steam and the Steam Engine’
The front cover says that the book is part of Collins’ Advanced Series. [$]
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![[picture: 331.---Switches and Crossings]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Evers-SteamAndTheSteamEngine/wm/big/302-switches-railway-points-q75-536x200.jpg "[picture: 331.---Switches and Crossings]")
