An essay on the nature and application of steam : with an historical notice of the rise and progressive improvement of the steam-engine : being the prize essay on this subject at the London Mechanics' Institution in the year 1833
An essay on the nature and application of steam, a prize essay by M. Alderson published in London in 1834 by Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, written for the London Mechanics' Institution and tracing the history of the steam engine. The four pictures are technical engineering diagrams of boilers and furnaces, drawn as plain line cross-sections with hatched shading and lettered reference marks, offering a designer clear examples of mechanical schematic drawing.
