STEAM SUPERSEDED. AN ACCOUNT OF THE NEWLY-INVENTED ELECTRO-MAGNETIC ENGINE, FOR THE PROPULSION OF LOCOMOTIVES, SHIPS, MILLS, &C. AS ALSO TO THE PROCESSES OF SPINNING, TURNING, GRINDING SAWING, POLISHING, &C. AND EVERY SPECIES OF MECHANICAL MOVEMENT. WITH A LARGE AND ACCURATE DRAWING OF THE MACHINERY AND NECESSARY APPARATUS. TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL GERMAN WORK, BY DR. TAYLOR.
London: Sherwood, Gilbert, & Piper, Paternoster Row, 1841. vii, [1 blank], 36 pp, plus folded plate frontis. Stitched. Original printed wrappers [front wrap detached and chipped at extremities but present]. Else Very Good, with a clean text.
The plate depicts the new, vaunted machine. "On the laws of electro-magnetism, and its application as a moving force."
OCLC 20583932 [5- U Chicago, Linda Hall Lib., Smithsonian, Nat. Lib. Scotland, Mariners Museum], 614859063 [1- U Aberdeen] as of July 2026. Item #42308
Price: $375.00


