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Date: 04/15/19 19:59
Designing and building early steam locomotives
Author: waymongrimes

What procedures did early locomotive manufacturers and builders  utilize  in designing and building steam locomotives?  No computers, etc., maybe slide rulers,  math equations, etc to determine amount of steam and other elements necessary to power locomotives, etc.  Would appreciate comments and information on this subject.

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Date: 04/15/19 21:09
Re: Designing and building early steam locomotives
Author: px320

Here is a link to Forney's 1875 Catechism of the Locomotive. I believe this is the earliest American publication on Locomotives. I have an original and it has answered many many questions for me.

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/AJR7817.0001.001?view=toc

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