The Steamboating Forum

Hey All!

I got a wish list to fill and I am thinking that some interesting reading is in order

I am asking you all for the title and author of books that you found very helpful/informative on the subjects on the building of steam launches and the various systems therein, including steam engines, boilers and anything else you can think of that you may have discovered along the way.

If I don't get a wish list put together this year that has something besides CNC machinery and tooling on it I think my family is going to disown me.

Cheers!

Scott

http://www.steamlaunch.com/books/modernbt.html or http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-k ... ndex=books

http://www.amazon.com/Steam-Launch-Rich ... 087742117X


http://www.ebay.com/itm/Kents-Mechanica ... 1155234327
http://www.ebay.com/itm/MARKs-HANDBOOK- ... 1206371867
http://www.amazon.com/Skenes-Elements-D ... 0396079687
http://www.amazon.com/Propeller-Handboo ... r+handbook

The above I find are the most useful titles in my steam library....

- Bart

A favorite of mine, SELF PROPELLED VEHICLES, published 1900 - 1905, comes up on e-bay at times. The information on steam automobiles, their engines, the various boilers, burners, steam plant operation, etc. is well presented, and generally much more applicable to our steam launches than the engineering handbooks of later decades. Plenty of non-steam info also, but for me the steam chapters in this book have been very helpful.

https://archive.org/details/selfpropelledve03homagoog

As physical copies are $$.

- Bart