1864 Civil War RAILROAD Locomotive Engineer Norris Steam Engine Illustrated

A rare 1864 printing of ‘Norris's Hand-book for Locomotive Engineers and Machinists’ by Septimus Norris with help from his brother William Norris who was the first to build a locomotive in America and the first engineer to attempt to surmount the Inclined Plane across the Schuylkill. Norris wrote this work as a teaching manual to all those who would be interested in the science of mechanics. He discusses:

·        Areas of Circles, Diameters, and Circumferences

·        Boiler Locomotive

·        Elasticity of Cast Iron and Wrought

·        Conic Sections

·        Rods, Cylinders, and Valves of Locomotives

·        Feed Pumps of Locomotives

·        Fractional Parts of an Inch

·        Friction

·        Levers

·        Railways

·        Safety Valves

·        Steam Engine

·        And more!

This 1864 edition includes two full page engraved illustrations of a locomotive bullt by the Amoskeac Manufacturing Company and a locomotive built by the Norris brothers for the Syracuse and Utica railroads and numerous mathematical tables throughout!

Item number: #9356

Price: $499

NORRIS, Septimus

Norris's hand-book for locomotive engineers and machinists

Philadelphia: H.C. Baird, 1864.

Details:

·       Collation: Complete with all pages

o   302, [27]

o   Intext illustrations throughout

·       Language: English

·       Binding: Cloth; tight and secure

·       Size: ~7.5in X 5in (19cm x 12.5cm)

·       Very rare and desirable

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