The Coal Viewer and Engine Builder's Practical Companion

Curr, John

ISBN 10: 0678051046 / ISBN 13: 9780678051047

Published by Frank Cass, London, 1970

About this Item

96pp, folding diagrams, tables, d/w sl worn at edges, previous owner's address label on half-title page. Facsimile reprint of original 1797 edition on the author's cast iron railway and Newcomen pumping engine with new introduction by Charles Lee.

Seller Inventory # 009152

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Coal Viewer and Engine Builder's Practical Companion
• Publisher: Frank Cass, London
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0678051046
• ISBN 13: 9780678051047
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Transport & Industry
  • Engineering
  • Railways

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Synopsis

1970 reprint (A. M. Kelley) of a 1797 treatise by John Curr who designed the first "cast iron railroad," a railway system which could accommodate flat-tire vehicles capable of being used apart from the railway. This book devotes a section to the railroad and is considered the first engineering work on railway track. The remainder of the book contains an extremely detailed description of the Newcomen pumping engine. With elaborately detailed foldout diagrams of the mechanical devices. 96 pages.