Download or read book Building Your own Toy Steam Engine - A Guide to Constructing Your own Model Steam Engine and Single Acting Toy Engine written by Anon and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vintage book is a detailed guide to constructing a model steam engine and single-acting toy engine. The detailed and comprehensive manual is recommended for the serious model enthusiast with an interest in miniature engineering, and is not to be missed by the discerning collector of vintage engineering literature. Contents include: “How to Make a Steam Engine”, “Watt's Engine”, “How to Make an Engine”, “The Safety Valve”, “Engines Without Slide – Valves Easy to Make”, “The Double Action Oscillating Engine”, “Model Steam-Engines”, and “Single-Acting Toy-Engine”. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on making models.