Atlas of the engravings to illustrate and pictorially explain the locomotive engine in all its phases

Object detail

Accession number

07-876

Maker

G. Drysdale Dempsey

Description

Includes illustrations of parts of six wheel engines and four wheel engines, illustrations of a locomotive engine on the Great Western Railway, Crampton's locomotive engine, Samuel's express engine, and a locomotive engine on the Versailles Railway.

Signature/Marks and Type

James Paton
Engineer
Auckland
N Zealand
1866 Hand-written

Media/Materials

Processed Material/Paper

Physical description

14 plates (some folded) : all illustrations ; 31 cm

Other title

Atlas of engravings to the rudimentary treatise on locomotive engines consisting of examples of engines of the broad and narrow gauge, the link motion, etc.

Collection

Murray Lane Collection

Credit line

G. Drysdale Dempsey. 1859. Atlas of the engravings to illustrate and pictorially explain the locomotive engine in all its phases, 07-876. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).

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Classification

Book Communication Artefacts Documentary Artefacts Other Documents

Production place

London Greater London England Great Britain British Isles Europe Great Britain United Kingdom

Subject: all levels

Design and construction Locomotives Design and construction Steam locomotives

Collection type

Published Titles Walsh Memorial Library

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