How Steam Locomotives Really Work

Name: How Steam Locomotives Really Work
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ISBN: 9780198607823

ISBN-10: 0198607822

ISBN-13: 9780198607823

Edition: 2003

Authors: P. W. B. Semmens, A. J. Goldfinch

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Steam locomotives were developed in the early part of the 19th Century, initially by Trevithick, and then most successfully by George Stephenson, whose engine Locomotion inaugurated the famous Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825. For the next 150 years, steam locomotives were further developed and refined, until the advent of new electrical technology superseded them. Although British Railways operated its last main-line steam locomotives in 1968, there is still immense interest in the large numbers of locomotives that have been privately preserved, and which run on heritage railways and in various parts of the world. This book describes the anatomy and physiology of the steam train, to…

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List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/10/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Introduction



Why use steam?



Burning the fuel



Raising steam



Using the steam



Transmitting the power



The locomotive as a vehicle



The steam locomotive at work



Brakes



Designing a steam locomotive


Index