Anthony J. Bianculli
Auteur de Trains and Technology: The American Railroad in the Nineteenth Century: Volume 4: Bridges and Tunnels Signals
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Anthony J. Bianculli is a mechanical engineer with extensive and varied technical and management experience
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The book is split into five sections: introduction, motive power infancy (1830-1850), adolescence (1850-1875), maturity (1875-1900) and a last section covering locomotive appliances and fittings. Motive power infancy brings to life the debates concerning vertical vs. horizontal boilers, inside vs. outside connection, valve gear changes and improvements and other issues. Adolescence discusses the shift from revolutionary to evolutionary developments in technology. By the 1850’s the steam locomotive had assumed its familiar shape and inventive efforts focused on the issues of optimization of this configuration – boiler design, wheel arrangements, etc. The section titled “Maturity” discusses the evolution of standardization, the shift away from the 4-4-0 wheel arrangement and the beginnings of electric power.
Each section of the book discusses primary, secondary, and fanciful contributions to locomotive technology. The discussions provide a succinct summation of the effort and, wherever possible, contemporary reports concerning the contribution and how well it succeeded or failed. By blending the technical descriptions of attempts at locomotive improvement with contemporary reactions to those attempts the author has produced a history of technology that is educational and entertaining.… (plus d'informations)