L A Mair
publications

Paperpack 268 pages. Book size 246 by 189.
ISBN 978095641735
Date published 2019

Published in the UK by L.A Mair

Contents :

PART ONE : Biographical Notes
1   THE STIRLING-MACGREGORS OF DUNBLANE

• Stirling family tree
• The Stirlings of Perthshire
• Clan Gregor or Stirling
• Robert Stirling, tenant farmer at Gateside of Glassingall
• William Stirling merchant of Dunblane
• Michael Stirling. tenant farmer at Gateside of Glassingall
• Threshing Machines
• Patrick Stirling, tenant farmer at Cloag, MethviN

• Robert Stirling, early life
• Robert Stirling, Minister of the second charge, Kilmarnock
• The Duke of Portland
• Thomas Morton
• Robert Stirling, Marriage and children
• Robert Stirling, Minister of Galston
• The Disruption
• Galston Parish
• In Memoriam

• Patrick Stirling
• Jane Stirling
• William Stirling
• Robert Stirling
• Rev. David Stirling
• James Stirling
• Agnes Stirling

• Robert Stirling‘s presentation to the Parishes of Kilmarnock and Galston
• Sermon Preached by Robert Stirling in 1833
• Case of Dr. Grant, Mr. Robertson and other
• 2nd Statistical Account of Scotland˜Parish of Galston
• Transcript Robert Stirling‘s will

• James Stirling, early life
• Claud Girdwood & Co
• James Smith & the Deanstone works
• The Dundee Foundry
• The Institute of Civil Engineers
• James Leslie
• Dundee
• Professor Lewis Gordon
• Consulting Civil Engineer, Edinburgh
• The Institute of Mechanical Engineers
• The Highland and Agricultural Society
• The International Exhibition of 1862
• Other inventions & observations
• Susan Hunter
• Transcript˜James Stirling‘s will

• Time line
• Early Air Engines

• Robert Stirling‘s Patent for saving fuel 1816
• Ericsson‘s caloric engine, 1833
• Siemens‘s Regenerative Condenser
• iemens‘s Regenerative Furnace
• Exhaust or Flue Gas Economisers
• The Recuperator or Air Pre-heater

• Robert Stirling‘s Patent Air Engine
• Transcript˜Robert Stirling‘s Scottish patent of 1816
• Transcript˜Robert Stirling‘s English patent of 1816, No.4081
• The Stirling Engine 1816 ˜ 1824
• John and Robert Hart
• A Quarry Pumping engine
• Aërial Navigation
• Robert Stirling‘s demonstration models
• Robert & James Stirling's improvements in Air Engines 1827
• James Stirling‘s Glasgow experimental engine
• Caloric Ships
• The Highland Lad
• Transcript˜Robert & James Stirling‘s English patent of 1827
• Robert & James Stirling‘s improvements in Air Engines 1840
• The effects of dead space
• Transcript˜James & Robert Stirling‘s English patent of 1840
• Transcript˜Robert & James Stirling‘s Scottish patent of 1840
• The Dundee Foundry Air Engines
• The first Dundee engine
• The third Dundee engine
• Metallurgical Problems
• James Stirling. Description of Stirling‘s Improved Air Engine
• Patrick Stirling. Notes on Stirling‘s Air Engine
• William Rankine‘s analysis of the Dundee Engine
• On the Motive Power of Heat
• Sadi Carnot
• Thermodynamics at Glasgow University
• Lewis Gordon, William & James Thomson
• A Reversible Cycle
• Alexander Kirk˜mechanical production of cold
• Superseding Steam
• Legacy
• Plates