Engineering↗
From Vacuum to Engine: Savery, Newcomen, Smeaton and Watt
Five milestones across eighty years that turn a laboratory observation about atmospheric pressure into a general source of industrial power.
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Every page in the KEVOS library tagged Power Engineering. 5 pages.
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Heat into Work: The Gas Turbine and the Fission Reactor
Two technologies with a straightforward efficiency argument that says run hotter, and one shared constraint: both are limited by what the hot parts are made of, not by thermodyn…
Engineering↗
High Pressure and the Portable Engine: Trevithick and Evans
Three milestones that made the engine small enough to move, by doing the one thing James Watt refused to do.
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Light and the Central Station: Electricity Finds a Mass Market
Six milestones in which electricity acquired its first mass market, and in which the decisive engineering turned out to be system design rather than lamp design.
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The Medieval Power Revolution: Water, Wind and the Horse
Six milestones that together constitute the largest single change in this set: the replacement of human muscle as the primary source of mechanical power.
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