Abstract
PROF. GOSS and his assistants in the engineering laboratory of the Purdue University are to be congratulated on the very able manner in which they have carried out their researches on the performance of locomotives, and more particularly the experiments with the two locomotives installed in the locomotive testing plant at Purdue University.
Locomotive Performance.
By William F. M. Goss. Pp. xvi + 439. (New York: John Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1907.) Price 21s. net.
The Railway Locomotive. What it is and why it is what it is.
By Vaughan Pendred. Pp. xi + 310. (London: A. Constable and Co., Ltd., 1908.) Price 6s. net.
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Locomotive Performance The Railway Locomotive What it is and why it is what it is . Nature 79, 305–306 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/079305a0
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