Locomotive engineering and the mechanism of railways a treatise on the principles and construction of the locomotive engine, railway carriages, and railway plant with examples
Locomotive engineering and the mechanism of railways a treatise on the principles and construction of the locomotive engine, railway carriages, and railway plant with examples
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William Collins, Glasgow 1864, 11'x14-1/2', 168pp. of text + 30 plates, 1-28, 34-35. 159 text figures. History of Locomotive Engine, Heat & Steam, Description of the Locomotive Engine, Valve Gear Considered Geometrically, On the proportion of Valves & Eccentrics, & first 9pp. of Link Motion-The Shifting Link. text ends in the middle of a sentence in chapter on link motion. original cloth, lacks spine, front cover dtaeched, rear cover almost detached. text fingermarked, cracked between text & plates. plates are 21'x14' double page spreads, b&w engineering drawings. ca.3' waterstain to bottom of text fold, also at outside bottom corners.
