Railway Curves For Practical Trackmen (1906) - Couverture rigide

Smith, Frederick Augustus

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1161801251 ISBN 13 : 9781161801255

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

Railway Curves For Practical Trackmen is a book written by Frederick Augustus Smith and published in 1906. The book is a comprehensive guide for trackmen working on railways, providing them with practical knowledge on how to design and construct railway curves. The book covers a wide range of topics, including the principles of curve construction, the use of curves in railway design, and the various types of curves used in railway construction. It also includes detailed instructions on how to lay out and construct curves, as well as information on the tools and equipment required for this work. The book is a valuable resource for anyone involved in railway construction or maintenance, and provides a detailed insight into the practical aspects of curve construction.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book is written for the especial benefit of practical track men, for the purpose of making them acquainted with the elementary principles of railway curves, and to enable them to satisfactorily adjust their curves independent of the civil engineer. For this reason all complicated formulae or calculations have been eliminated in order to bring the book to the level of the practical man whose education has been limited to that of the public schools, and whose knowledge of arithmetic is limited to the four principal operations, namely: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. This book is also a guide for the use of the Smith curve lining gauge, whose construction and various applications for the work for which it was designed are fully described. The author believes that any intelligent section foreman, by the careful study of this little book and the use of the Smith curve lining gauge, should be able to adjust any of his curves, and do it right, with results raising the entire standard of the American railway service. The problems illustrated in this work are all of a practical character, and cover nearly all the curve work which the track foreman is expected to perform.
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This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1161801251
• ISBN 13: 9781161801255
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 66
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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