THE LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE: INCLUDING A DESCRIPTION OF ITS STRUCTURE, RULES FOR ESTIMATING ITS CAPABILITIES, AND PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS ON ITS CONSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT. NEW EDITION.
Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1853. 187, [24 advt.] pp, with four illustrations. Bound in original cloth, with gilt-lettered title stamped on front cover, "Practical Series." Gilt title stamped on spine. Light wear, minor occasional foxing. Very Good.
First published in 1851, this is the "New Edition." Colburn's Introductory Notice explains his motivation for writing this book: "The absence of any purely practical work on American locomotives." Colburn has taken pains "to render plain and distinct those parts of the book which are devoted to the principles of locomotive science."
Not in Sabin, Eberstadt, BRE. OCLC 61112830 [SMU, Stanford, Northwestern, Harvard] as of March 2025. Item #40779
Price: $250.00