LOCOMOTIVES, LOKOMOTIVEN, HISTORICAL RAILROAD PRINT,1894 Original Antique Wood Engraving

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Approx Overall Size with Margins: 6 x 9 1/2 inches CONDITION: Excellent Condition. Image is clean, clear, sharp with beautiful detail. As scanned. A locomotive (from Latin loco motivus) is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train, and has no payload capacity of its own; its sole purpose is to move the train along the tracks.The first successful locomotives were built by Cornish inventor Richard Trevithick. In 1804 his unnamed locomotive hauled a train along the tramway of the Penydarren ironworks, near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. Although the locomotive hauled a train of 10 tons of iron and 70 passengers in five wagons over nine miles it was too heavy for the cast iron rails used at the time. The locomotive only ran three journeys before it was abandoned. In 1813, George Stephenson persuaded the manager of the Killingworth colliery where he worked to allow him to build a steam-powered machine. He built the Blucher, the first successful flanged-wheel adhesion locomotive. The flanges enabled the trains to run on top of the rails instead of in sunken tracks. This greatly simplified construction of switches (called "points" in UK) and rails, and opened the way to the modern railroad.PRINT SHOWS: * EXPRESS TRAIN LOCOMOTIVE ON THE SOUTH AUSTRIAN LINE * STEPHENSONS PLANET, STEPHENSONS IRON HORSE, STEPHENSONS ROCKET * LENTZ LOCOMOTIVE * LOCOMOTIVE OF THE GOTTHARD RAILWAY * LOCOMOTIVE WITH DOUBLE BOLIER ON THE FRENCH EASTERN RAILWAY * FONTAINE LOCOMOTIVE. NOTE THE FOLLOWING BEFORE YOU PURCHASE: This is a GENUINE ANTIQUE PRINT. It is NOT a modern reproduction, ie. a laser scan, photocopy etc. It is the original from the antique atlas or book publication. This map/print was published on the date mentioned, or circa of the date mentioned at the top of the page. The print/map I have for sale, like many antique maps and prints that you see online, originate from an antique book or atlas publication. The publication may not always be known. If you have any questions, emails are welcome. Seller Inventory # 6535

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Title: LOCOMOTIVES, LOKOMOTIVEN, HISTORICAL ...

Publisher: Meyers Konversations

Binding: no binding

Condition: very good