Now available in a text-only paperback edition, THEY MADE AMERICA is a stirring and supremely readable work of historya celebration of the entrepreneurial energy that has fueled our nation since its inception. The real inventor of the steam engine. The creator of the bra. The man who invented modern banking. The creator of the computer operating system. These and scores of others are the characters who populate Harold Evanss brilliant, rollicking book about the men and women who made America great.

"Irresistible," wrote Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott when he selected Kathleen Ossip’s The Search Engine for the Honickman Prize from more than 1000 manuscripts. "You feel like quoting her," Walcott continued, "because she is . . . so fresh and so open." Ossip’s poetry is word-rich and music-lush, infused with fastidious hilarity and a genuine intelligence. It is a poetry of nerves, with a hunger for subtlety. She admits her influences easily, using pop songs and academic quotes in a self-confessed, even parodic search for her voice. As Richard Howard remarks: "An astonishment, this first book, and what a comfort!" Kathleen Ossip teaches at The New School. Her poetry has appeared in Best American Poetry and The Paris Review. She lives outside New York City.

Joshua Rose was a mechanical engineer, and his 1887 book is a classic in its field, giving full details of the construction of the modern steam engines of his day, and illustrating their operation with clear and understandable drawings. Filled with fascinating engravings, this book features simple explanations about the operations of various valves, valve motions, link motions, and much more. This is truly a book no steam enthusiast should be without. 322 pages, 8-1/2 x 11, over 300 line art illustrations, soft cover.

~rHE STEAM ENGINE PART I. There are varIOus kinds of engines from which mechanical work is obtaillell by the expenditure of heat. In the gas engine a mixture of gas and air is burned in the cylinder, the hea.t thus generated being converted illto work by the expansion of the products of combustion. The action in oil and hot-air engines is very similar. The most important of all heat engines, howeveJ'. is the steam engine, in which the heat in steam is transformed into work. It will be useful to review briefly some of the stages through which it has passed in i.ts development. The fir':lt steam engines of which we have any knowledge were de':lcribed by Hero of Alexandria, in a book written two centuries before Christ. Some of thcm were very ingeniolls, but the best were little more than... Less

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All Aboard For A Good Time. Decorate your table at your little one's train party with this Steam Engine Centerpiece. Your guests will love the pictured steam engine speeding down the tracks on this adorable centerpiece 9 x 11 3/4. Tissue bottom centerpiece. Simple assembly required. Quantities Limited. Order now before they're gone forever Sale items are non returnable. Throw your favorite little train enthusiast a railroad themed party for a birthday memory to cherish Stock up on train themed decorations and supplies for a gathering kids of all ages will enjoy Part of Decorations > Centerpieces

1.5" bore, 2.5" stroke, this baby is 18" long, 7.5 inches high, 8 inches wide, with a flywheel diameter of 6 7/8 inches. Cast in iron, this is a 40 pounder! Kit includes everything necessary to make a running engine.This is a set of casting that must be machined and assembled by YOU! S/H is $30.00 I have built many of these engines. I can help with machining any part, or I can provide a completed and ready to run engine for $750.00 Painted to your specifications. Lead time on a completed engine

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

In his new book, Battalion Chief Salka, a nationally recognized speaker and author with years of service in several career and volunteer departments, looks at both the similarities and differences in the engine company operations practiced by fire departments throughout the United States and discusses in detail the equipment, staffing, and operations of engine company firefighters at structural fires and emergencies in urban, suburban, and rural settings.In this book, Salka teaches readers: * The abilities and limitations of engine companies, depending on equipment, staffing, and water supply * To execute the tactical missions of engine companies * The importance of mastering engine company functions for successful fire attack. The Engine Company is an invaluable resource for firefighters... Less

The Distance takes place in both an India of social revolution and a North America of immigrant assimilation. It is about human contradictions and dilemmas, and about characters torn apart by the fast-changing social landscape of two worlds. The narrator, a young Indian woman named Mini, must constantly choose between success and morality, between what she once wanted to be and what she has become. It is Mini s intelligence, awareness and strength of character--even more than the decision she must make between two worlds and two men--that set this story apart. Mini is neither the typical housewife nor the poor uneducated woman that has been the traditional lens in most Indian fiction written in English. She is educated and socially conscious, and her political involvements in India make... Less