300 years of the Steam Engine

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7 December 2012 at 21:26 #105720
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Am I the only one who was very much disappointed in this publication?

The history of the first engines and boiler was OK, then it seemed to tail off into a list of places you could see an engine. What about all the engines that were not horizontal mill engines, locomotive, power station and ships engines to name but three. Were was the charting of the development from the basic initial engines to the more advanced triple expansion engines, etc etc?

A list of places to visit is all very well, but in another book, I would have preferred more about just the engines and boilers that drove them, which is what I thought I was buying.

I don't down cry the effort that went into producing the book, I just wish that they had stuck to the title and not digressed into a tourist book.

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7 December 2012 at 22:46 #105731
Jeff Dayman
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I saw a copy at a friend's and was appalled at the amount of spelling errors in it. No proofreaders?

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8 December 2012 at 09:41 #105741
Eric Cox
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They used the same proof readers as ME uses.
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