Atmospheric railway
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An atmospheric railway uses differential air pressure to provide power for propulsion of a railway vehicle. A static power source can transmit motive power to the vehicle in this way, avoiding the nec
An Aeromovel train in Porto Alegre. The girder under the train forms an air duct. The vehicle is connected to a propulsion plate in the duct which is then driven by air pressure.
Arriving at Kingstown on the Dalkey Atmospheric Railway in 1844
Saint Germain piston carriage
Jolly-sailor station on the London and Croydon Railway in 1845, showing the pumping station, and the locomotive-less train
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel was an English civil and marine engineer considered "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution", "perhaps the most eminent Victorian engineer", and one whose wor
Atmospheric railway
…km/h). As this was the first commercially operating atmospheric railway, it attracted the attention of many eminent engineers of the day, including Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Robert Stephenson, and Sir William Cubitt. The line continued to operate successfully for ten years, outliving the atmospheric system on British lines…
Brunel by the launching chains of the SS Great Eastern, by Robert Howlett, 1857
Kensal Green Cemetery, designed by Brunel and his father with Augustus Charles Pugin
The two bores of the tunnel in 1870 in The Illustrated London News
Paddington station as published in The Illustrated London News in 1854