Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 354
LOCOMOTIVES, CLASSIFICATION AND FORMS OF. 339 to make an epoch in locomotive construction, are not so successful as to guarantee their perma-nence. Meyers system differs from the other principally by having a single boiler, and the fourcylinders placed toward the centre of the locomotive. Only two… … M. Beugniot has designed a locomotive for an Italian mountain railroad, which is known under hisname. Its peculiarities consist in an arrangement by which the axles move laterally on the track,remaining parallel to each other. Four of the five axles are coupled, and the fifth, which carriesonly a…
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