A study of the characteristics and the performance of different types of steam locomotives : by means of speed-time and speed-distance curves
A 1909 engineering thesis by Teruo Kishi at the University of Illinois, comparing steam locomotive types through speed-time and speed-distance calculations. The plates are hand-lettered line graphs on orange-ruled graph paper, with labeled curves for 100- to 800-ton trains covering acceleration, braking, distance and coal consumption, useful as grid textures, axis diagrams and technical lettering.
