Modern American Locomotive Engines; Their Design, Construction and Management. A Practical Work for Practical Men

Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird & Co, 1883. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Boards lightly soiled with minor discoloration along front spine edge, otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1883 Hard Cover. xxiv, 25-383, [3], 30 pp. Illustrated with 78 engravings, including two fold-outs. An engeering guide giving detailed information on steam power and how to engineer machines utilizing steam, the properties of water, fuel economy for combustion engines powered by coal, mechanical power and virtual velocities, boilers, slide valves, link motion, valve gears, valve motion diagrams, the piston and its rings, injectors, etc. Also provides historical information on railroads and locomotives in America, and the construction of locomotives, with a chapter on the centennial exhibition in Philadelphia.