PAMBOUR, Comte F.M.G. de

A Practical Treatise on Locomotive Engines

Early technical study of steam locomotives first published in English in 1836 with a second enlarged edition in 1840. Includes fold-out drawings.

The work is subtitled:
"A work intended to show the construction, the mode of acting, and the use of those engines for conveying heavy loads on railways; to give the means of ascertaining, on an inspection of the machine, the velocity with which it will draw a given load, and the effects it will produce under various circumstances; to determine the quantity of fuel and water it will require; to fix the proportions which it ought to have, in order to answer any intended purpose; etc.

Founded on a great many new experiments made on a large scale, in a daily practice, on the Liverpool and Manchester, and other railways, with many different engines, and considerable trains of carriages.

To which is added an appenidix showing the expense of conveying goods by locomotive engines, on railroads."