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 691
of the Shamokin coal basin. (See Scientific American, xvi., 53.) It has proved notablysuccessful on Mont Cenis, although the grades are exceedingly steep, attaining in some cases a pro-portion of 1 to 12. An account of the trial trip on this road will be found in the Scientific Amer-ican, xvii.,… … grade is 13 inches to the yard, and the lightest 1 inch to the foot. The locomotive pushes the carbefore it up the incline, as shown in Fig. 3652, and both run upon three rails, the centre one being acog- or rack-rail into which gears a cog-wheel on the locomotive. The Righi line starts from…
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