Sujet
Clegg and Samuda's atmospheric railway, 1845. Artist: Unknown
Légende
Clegg and Samuda's atmospheric railway, 1845. Designed by Samuel Clegg Jnr (1814-1856) and Joseph Samuda (1813-1885), this was the system adopted on the Croydon Atmospheric Railway, the Kingstown and Dalkey (Dublin), the Paris and St Germain, and the South Devon railways. The railway operated without locomotives, using air pressure instead to push cars along the rails. From The Magazine of Science. (London, 1845).
Oxford Science Archive
Date
1845
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images
Notre référence
HRM19B66_102
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
50,0Mo (2,6Mo) / 28,1cm x 44,5cm / 3323 x 5258 (300dpi)