Historical review of various more or less unsuccessful attempts made in England and elsewhere to provide locomotion by use of compressed air or atmospheric pressure for direct motive power; J. Samuda's railway running from Wormwood Scrubbs to Uxbridge Road (1840); Kingston-Dalkey Railway (1843); London and Croydon Railway; South Devon Atmospheric Railway. (See also - discussion p 113-4)
Atmospheric railways
Junior Inst Engrs -- J
Junior Institution of Engineers -- Journal ; 59 , Part 4
1949
12 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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