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Mechanism of steam engines by James, Walter Herman, 1873-; Dole, Myron Wilkinson, 1882- Publication date 1914 Topics Steam-engines Publisher New York, John Wiley & sons, inc.; [etc.,etc.] Collection ...

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0 0 This article was originally published with the title “Defect in Steam Engines” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 12 No. 25 (June 1865), p. 392 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican06171865-392a ...

These employees would have been almost entirely male when the first steam engines hauled their cargo through Alishan's forests. More than a century later, the rail staff is decidedly more mixed.