A rudimentary treatise on the locomotive engine [abridged]. With additions by D.K. Clark |
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13 inch 24 inches 9 inches adhesion average axle axle-box barrel bearings blast-pipe bogie boiler bolts brass carriages carrying-wheels centre chimney coal coke combustion connecting-rod constructed coupled crank crank-axle crank-pin curves cylinders D. K. Clark diagrams driving-axle driving-wheels Eastern Counties Railway Edition excentric excentric-rod expansion feet 6 inches fire fire-box fire-box-shell fixed flanch flanges flue-tubes frame frame-plates front fuel gauge Grand Junction Railway heating surface Illustrated inch thick inches diameter inches in diameter inches long inches wide inside iron John Dewrance leading wheels leading-wheels length lever load locomotive engine longitudinal maximum miles per hour motion pair passengers piston piston-rod placed plates port practical pressure radius rails Railway resistance riveted screwed side six-wheeled slide-valve smoke-box speed square feet square inch steam Stephenson stroke tender tion tons total weight trailing wheels train Treatise tube-plate tubes valve vertical waggons wheel-base wheels whilst width wrought-iron
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