signed presentation copy from Maus inscribed at head of title (partly erased), stitched in original printed wrappers, uncut, a little soiled, spine frayed, preserved in modern cloth portfolio, 8vo, Brussels, 1846. *** The Kingstown to Dalkey was, perhaps, the most successful of the atmospheric railways and attracted considerable international interest. This rare report by two Belgian engineers' for the Ministry of Public Works in Brussels' compares the atmospheric railway with a cable-hauled rather than a locomotive-powered system. After exhaustive enquiries and experiments into speed and power, the effect of distance between pumps and tube, construction of tubes and valves and a comparison with the cable-hauled railway at Liège they recommended against the atmospheric railway.
signed presentation copy from Maus inscribed at head of title (partly erased), stitched in original printed wrappers, uncut, a little soiled, spine frayed, preserved in modern cloth portfolio, 8vo, Brussels, 1846. *** The Kingstown to Dalkey was, perhaps, the most successful of the atmospheric railways and attracted considerable international interest. This rare report by two Belgian engineers' for the Ministry of Public Works in Brussels' compares the atmospheric railway with a cable-hauled rather than a locomotive-powered system. After exhaustive enquiries and experiments into speed and power, the effect of distance between pumps and tube, construction of tubes and valves and a comparison with the cable-hauled railway at Liège they recommended against the atmospheric railway.
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