Transcriber’s Notes
The text of this document follows that of the source; inconsistent spelling and hyphenation have been retained, except as mentioned below.
Depending on the hard- and software used to read this text, and on their settings, not all elements may display as intended. The scales as provided in the indicator diagrams are, of course, not necessarily correct.
Page 93: ... H laid on its side, thus ⌶: the symbol is used to represent the shape of the rotated letter H, not an I or an I-beam.
Page 137, bill for American belt: there are some errors in the calculations, these have not been corrected.
Page 147, paragraph starting The day after the opening ...: the single and double quote marks do not match.
Page 155, ... exposition of the action of the reciprocating parts was given Mr. Edwin Reynolds ...: should possibly read ... exposition of the action of the reciprocating parts was given by Mr. Edwin Reynolds ....
Page 202, ... half the distance to the mid-stroke or to E, Fig. 32, ...: presumably this refers to the figure on page 201; there is no figure 32 in the book.
Page 217, If I went, that I would be the end of the business: the second I should probably be deleted.
Page 293: Presumably the references in the text to Figure 1 and Figure 2 are to the top and bottom illustration respectively; the source document does not provide figure numbers.
Page 328-330: The use of quote marks in these letters differs from that in other correspondence; this has not been standardised.
Changes made
Illustrations and tables were moved out of text paragraphs.
Texts in a dashed box is not present as text in the source document, but has been transcribed from the accompanying illustration. The transcribed texts provide an approximate indication of the positions of the elements relative to each other.
Some obvious minor typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected silently.
Dimensions m×n and m × n have been standardised to m×n, multiplications x×y and x × y to x × y; cross-head and crosshead were standardised to cross-head.
Page xii: illustration numbers have been added; Diagrams from English Locomotive ... has been changed to Diagrams from English Locomotives ... as in the illustration caption.
Page 40: a closing single quote mark was inserted after ... do not require any governor,
Page 79: pièce de resistance changed to pièce de résistance.
Page 91, illustration caption: English Locomtlvoes changed to English Locomotives.
Page 175: ... told me had had supplied all the money ... changed to ... told me he had supplied all the money ....
Page 287: ... this they had been keen kept in ignorance of ... changed to ... this they had been kept in ignorance of ....
Page 294: b′ and c′ in the text changed to b¹ and c¹ as in the illustration.
Page 303: ... to very the speed ... changed to ... to vary the speed ....
Page 331: ... before I left planning a smaller engine ... changed to ... before I left, planning a smaller engine ....
Page 333: closing quote mark inserted after ... employing six typewriters.