The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated (Seventh Edition), by Lardner 42602 [Author: Dionysius Lardner] [Subtitle: With an Account of its Invention and Progressive Improvement, and its Application to Navigation and Railways; Including also a Memoir of Watt] [NOTE TO INDEXERS: If "Dionysius Lardner" is entered in the PG catalog search field for author, the name Dion Boucicault (1820-1890) is returned. Dionysius Lardner (1793-1859), the author of this work, is thought to have been the "natural" father of Dion Boucicault. The two are different individuals.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/4/2/6/0/42602 ] [Files: 42602.txt; 42602-8.txt; 42602-h.htm; 42602-0.txt; ] [Clearance: 20100119115737lardner] E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, RichardW, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) Thanks, Joe Loewenstein