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 360
called steam-cars or dummies. They are made noiseless by a special arrangement of exhaust,and in order not to show smoke they are made to burn coke or anthracite coal. Powerful brakesadmit of stopping them in the same or in less time and a shorter space than the ordinary horse-car.In order to pass…
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