New book at Project Gutenberg

[Forester1]

Another new book about Trains at Gutenberg.org. "Chatechism of the Locomotive" by Matthais Nance Forney and Georg Kosak. A very technical breakdown of a standard American Steam locomotive: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76379

 

[wreeder]

Thanks, I saw that but figured it was about locomotives at the Vatican.

 

[Paulsw2]

Really, really interesting. Shame it's not available as a pdf to download.

 

[Forester1]

Not a PDF, but as three types of EPUB files, two types of kindle, plain text or HTML. From most of those you may be able to convert one to a PDF. It is a little surprising they don't do PDF, but maybe it is a licensing thing.

 

[wreeder]

https://1drv.ms/b/c/CB0A60B7C1730843/EbnHK97oQxpHgbsBy3WGcU4BFa5iY1QZnQIFNV5TNLLhoQ?e=YtB0Ds

There you go.

 

[wreeder]

Not a PDF, but as three types of EPUB files, two types of kindle, plain text or HTML. From most of those you may be able to convert one to a PDF. It is a little surprising they don't do PDF, but maybe it is a licensing thing.

Almost all ebook readers support the epub format and its files are tiny compared to pdf. I converted that in Calibre which is the king of ebook management and reader software. The patent on pdf file format ran out a few years ago. Anyone can write them now.
Edit: you can even click the Read Now button and use the pdf virtual printer in Windows to convert to a pdf and save it to your PC.

 

[wreeder]

The PDF patent ran out in 2008 when Adobe published a Public Patent License to ISO 32000-1 granting royalty-free rights for all patents owned by Adobe necessary to make, use, sell, and distribute PDF-compliant implementations.

Time flies when you are having fun.

 

[Paulsw2]

https://1drv.ms/b/c/CB0A60B7C1730843/EbnHK97oQxpHgbsBy3WGcU4BFa5iY1QZnQIFNV5TNLLhoQ?e=YtB0Ds

There you go.

Thanks very much! Pleased I've got it for posterity.

 

[OddRails]

Thanks for the heads up. I see it was written by a Matthias Forney. Did he develop the Forney locos? I guess I ought to read it and ask later.