Author: FLACHAT, Eugène & PETIET, Jules
Title: Calculs et tableaux sur l'avance du tiroir, les tuyaux d'échappement, les conduits de vapeur et de fumée dans les machines locomotives (extrait du Guide du mécanicien conducteur de machines locomotives), précédés d'une lettre à M. Arago, Secrétaire Perpétuel de l'Académie des Sciences; par Eugène Flachat et Jules Petiet. Ingénieurs Civils.
Description: [Paris? 1839?] Small 8vo. xiii, 92p. Some spotting and a little damp-staining. New marbled boards cloth spine, new end papers. 'Lettre à M. Arago' is dated 'Paris, le 22 novembre 1839' and the second paragraph includes the information 'Nos observations ont été faites sur cinquante machines des chemins de fer de Saint-Germain et de Versailles (rive droite), et, par conséquent, sur des locomotives spécialement affectées au transport des voyageurs.' An early work of railway interest published only a couple of years after the inauguration (26 August 1837) of the first steam railway in France to operate for both freight and passengers (connnecting Paris and the town of St. Germain). Flachat was a distinguished civil engineer from Nîmes who in his youth had made a study of the London docks and had been involved in the planning of the Paris-St. Germain line. He was responsible for numerous publications on locomotive design, railway engineering, projects for new docks and railway lines (including the Simplon route through the Alps)

Keywords: French, railways, transport, locomotives, France, antiquarian


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