HALL, Samuel. Address to Lord William Bentinck ... on Steam Communication with India, Nottingham: 1838, 4°, FIRST EDITION, 22pp. [bound with:] Samuel Hall's Address to the British Association, explanatory of the injustice done to his improvements on steam engines by Dr. Lardner, Liverpool: 1837, 4°, FIRST EDITION, 10pp. [and:] Samuel Hall's Improvements on Steam Engines, Liverpool: [n.d.], 4°, FIRST EDITION, 20pp., 2 double-page lithographed plates (some browning), together 3 pamphlets in one volume, modern boards, original buff wrappers bound in and INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to John Burton. [Scott 632; 627; the last not in Scott]

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HALL, Samuel. Address to Lord William Bentinck ... on Steam Communication with India, Nottingham: 1838, 4°, FIRST EDITION, 22pp. [bound with:] Samuel Hall's Address to the British Association, explanatory of the injustice done to his improvements on steam engines by Dr. Lardner, Liverpool: 1837, 4°, FIRST EDITION, 10pp. [and:] Samuel Hall's Improvements on Steam Engines, Liverpool: [n.d.], 4°, FIRST EDITION, 20pp., 2 double-page lithographed plates (some browning), together 3 pamphlets in one volume, modern boards, original buff wrappers bound in and INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to John Burton. [Scott 632; 627; the last not in Scott]

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Samuel Hall (1781-1863) of Basford, Nottinghamshire, was the great pioneer of the marine surface condenser, although it was not till after 1860 that this came into use on any considerable scale.

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