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    • Author/Creator:Dodd, George, 1783-1827.
    • Title:An historical and explanatory dissertation on steam-engines and steam-packets : with the evidence in full given by the most eminent engineers, mechanists, and manufacturers, to the select committees of the House of Commons; together with the committees' reports, distinguishing and defining safe and unsafe steam-engines, and their proper management : comprising particulars of the fatal explosions of boilers at Norwich, Northumberland, Wells-street, and in America : concluding with a narrative, by Isaac Weld, Esq. of the interesting voyage of the Thames steam-yacht, from Glasgow, in Scotland, to Dublin and London / by Geo. Dodd, civil engineer ; illustrated by two elegant engravings of steam-yachts.
    • Published/Created:London : Published for the author by James Asperne, J. M. Richardson & Co., Cornhill; R. Ackerman, Strand; and N. Hailes, London Museum, Piccadilly, 1818.
    • Physical Description:[2], xxv, [3], 280 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

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      • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
        Request for use in the YCBA Study Room

      • Call Number: TJ284 .D63 1818
      • Status:Not Checked Out
      • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
       
    • Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Bound in quarter calf and marbled boards, with marbled edges. Handwritten index [10] p. tipped in at end.
    • Notes:Printed by W. Clowes, Northumberland-Court, Strand, London.
      Includes the evidence given to the House of Commons Select Committee on steam boats in May 1817.
    • Format:Book
    • References:NSTC, 2D15486
      Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 334
    • Subjects:Steam-boilers.
      Steam-engines--History
      Steam-navigation--History.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1818.
      Asperne, James--Publisher.
      Ackerman, R.--Publisher.
      Hailes, N.--Publisher.
      Clowes, W.--Printer.
      J.M. Richardson & Co.--Publisher.
    • Genre/Form:Aquatints--1818.
    • Also listed under:Weld, Isaac, 1774-1856.
    Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3300898