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"The willing servant" : a history of the steam locomotive /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ross, David
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stroud : Tempus, 2004.
Subjects:
Steam locomotives > History.
Railroads > Social aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Ancestry and beginnings
  • Coming of age
  • Trials and triumphs
  • The basics confirmed
  • Pushing out frontiers
  • Adjustments to the nervous system
  • Engineers and aesthetics
  • Gauges and growing pains
  • Mid-century perceptions
  • Coke, coal, culm, logs, bagasse and oil
  • The need for growth
  • But how do you make it stop?
  • Magniloquence and minimalism
  • Compounding
  • The racing years
  • Superheating
  • A hundred years on
  • Imperial and royal
  • 'Great things were expected'
  • Big boilers
  • Across tundra, veldt and pampas
  • 'Foreign devils' fire carts'
  • Engines of the imagination
  • Bigger engines
  • Express elegance
  • The search for super-power
  • Getting away from Stephenson
  • The Standardisers
  • Record breakers
  • The iconic locomotive
  • On the footplate
  • The biggest engines
  • A sort of zenith
  • A consideration of chimneys
  • War engines
  • Post-war engines.