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A rudimentary treatise on the locomotive engine in all its phases: popularly described, with illustrations for students and nonprofessional men. By G. Drysdale Dempsey ... Fifty-four illustrative explanatory diagrams.

Main Author:	Dempsey, G. Drysdale -1859.
Language(s):	English
Published:	London, J. Weale, 1857, '56.
Edition:	2d ed.
Subjects:	Locomotives
Note:	Atlas bound with main work. Atlas, dated 1856, has title: Atlas of engravings to illustrate and pictorially explain the locomotive engine in all its phases.
Physical Description:	iv p., 1 l., 150 p. illus., fold. pl. 18cm. and atlas of XIV pl. (fold.)
Original Format:	Book
Original Classification Number:	TJ 605 .D39 1857
Locate a Print Version:	Find in a library

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