Name: Steam Traction on the Road: From Trevithick to Sentinel: 150 Years of Design and Development (en Inglés)
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Author: Burton, Anthony
ISBN: 9781399077224

portada Steam Traction on the Road: From Trevithick to Sentinel: 150 Years of Design and Development (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Anthony Burton

Editorial

Pen and Sword Transport

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

200

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781399077224

Categorías

Artesanías, artes decorativas y manualidades
Vehículos terrestres y automotores
Trenes y ferrocarriles

Steam Traction on the Road: From Trevithick to Sentinel: 150 Years of Design and Development (en Inglés)

Anthony Burton (Autor) · Pen and Sword Transport · Tapa Blanda

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This is the story of how for more than a hundred years steam power played a vital role in the development of road transport. It all began with tentative attempts to build steam carriages by pioneers such as Cugnot in France and Trevithick in Britain, and in the early part of the nineteenth century there were significant attempts to develop steam carriages and omnibuses. That these attempts ultimately failed was largely due to opposition by road authorities and draconian legislation. Steam power did, however, find a real purpose in agriculture, where the traction engine was used for a variety of tasks from towing and working threshing machines, to ploughing. Once the value of the traction engine had been established, it soon found a use in many parts of the world for heavy haulage work and appeared in an exotic guise as the showman's engine. The latter was not only used to haul rides to fairgrounds but also powered a dynamo that could light up the fair at night. By the end of the nineteenth century, steam on the road took on a new life with the development of steam cars and trucks. For a time they vied the new internal combustion engine for supremacy on the road. The American Doble Company even developed a 100mph steam sports car. Ultimately steam lost the war, but steam vehicles survive and delight us still thanks to enthusiastic owners and restorers.