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The steam engine familiarly explained and illustrated; with an historical sketch of its invention and progressive improvement; its applications to navigation and railways; with plain axioms for railway speculators (1849)

Lardner, Dionysius, 1793-1859, Renwick, James, 1790?-1863 · Philadelphia, Carey & Hart · leaf 144

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