REPORT ON WATER FOR LOCOMOTIVES FOR BOILER INCRUSTATIONS: MADE TO THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTORS OF THE NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD. BY... PROFESSOR OF ANALYTICAL AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY IN THE SCHOOL OF MINES, COLUMBIA COLLEGE, NEW YORK.
New York: Trow, 1865. Original printed wrappers, stitched. 35, [1 blank] pp. Light tanning, Very Good. A "leading authority on water supplies, sanitation, oil refining, and assaying" [DAB], Chandler here studied how to diminish, "as far as possible, the bad effects of the impure water supplied to locomotives on the..... More