Catechism of the locomotive (Registro nro. 117104)
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| LC control number | 40017709 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | TJ |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Forney, Matthias N. |
| Fuller form of name | (Matthias Nace), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1835-1908 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Catechism of the locomotive |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Based on Georg Kosak's "Katechismus ... der locomotive". See preface. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2025-06-25 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Peter Becker, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Catechism of the Locomotive" by Matthias N. Forney and Georg Kosak is a technical manual written in the late 19th century. It presents a clear, catechism-style guide to the principles, construction, and operation of steam locomotives for railroad personnel, mechanics, students, and interested readers. Expect plain language, abundant diagrams, and practical calculations covering thermodynamics, boilers, engines, valve gear, performance, and safety. The opening of the work sets out transcriber notes, plates, and publishing details, then a preface explaining how a German catechism by Kosak inspired a translation that Forney ultimately rewrote into an American-focused handbook, with acknowledgments and a defense of the “catechism” title. The introduction defines the broad audience and the commitment to simple explanations, briefly teaching the algebraic symbols and drawing conventions used. The text then begins its Q&A: it explains the basic steam engine (cylinder, piston, slide-valve, eccentric, rocker, flywheel), the forces of air and steam (atmospheric pressure, boiling point, saturated vs. superheated steam, absolute vs. effective pressure, expansion laws), and the ideas of work, energy, and the mechanical equivalent of heat. It introduces indicator diagrams to read cylinder pressures, and develops slide-valve action through motion-curves, lead, lap, travel, release, and the effects of connecting-rod angularity. Finally, it starts the topic of expansive working of steam, showing how to compute mean pressure and why cutting off early saves fuel, touching on wire-drawing and the comparative economy of different cutoff points. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | Bridgeport: F. Keppy, 1874 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Locomotives -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Kosak, Georg |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/catechismoflocom00forn">https://archive.org/details/catechismoflocom00forn</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76379">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76379</a> |
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