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Steamboats & Modern Steam Launches by Bill Durham, 1961-63
No Longer Available
A reprint in one volume of the original magazine
that ran 1961-63. Printed from original negatives on
coated stock. Plus new introduction by Durham.
This book is the handbook for building a steam-powered boat. It shows how to gather the necessary
equipment, and how to re-capture the uncluttered
simplicity of personal watercraft from the steam age.
Essential information is also here for restoring and
operating other types of steam machinery - farm,
stationary, electric power generation, etc.
Included in this book are the following subjects:
- steam engines
- firetubes boilers
- watertube boilers
- electrical generation
- boiler firing
- steam power rating
- steam gauges
- injectors
- paddle wheels
- water treatment
- wood fuel
- oil burners
- propellers
- lubrication
- piston valves
- sternwheelers
- side-wheelers
- tugboats
- navy cutters
- hot air engines
- naptha engines
- team outboards
- whistle making
- steam lights
- pumps
- salvage
- speed steam
- log towing
- restoring old engines
- hull building
- Venezia vaporetti
- Swiss lake boats
- Mississippi machinery
- conversions
- insulations
- models
Hardcover, 800+ b&w photos.
Code No. 009420, ISBN 0964120437
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