Early Power and Transport (Paperback)  | Released: 15 Sep 2017

Bryan Lawton received ASME's Engineering - Historian Award in 2016 for hisacclaimed book, Various and Ingenious Machines. VIM is a 1300 page, two-volumework, which provides a well-researched history of mechanical engineeringworldwide, from prehistory to roughly the beginnnings of industrialization.One of the main purposes of his two-volume VIM is to not only deliver an outline ofmechanical engineering history, but also to provide an adequate mathematicaltreatment for each topic, without straying beyond an engineering first degree level.Thus the reader can enjoy a well-written history and can supplement it with aconcise mathematical explanation in the appendices at the end of most of the chapters.ASME Press is offering VIM in a shortened, more affordable and accessible form, to serve as a guide for possibly probing deeper into the parent work. Volume 1covers early power generation and transportation.