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    Egide Walschaerts (21 January 1820 – 18 February 1901) was a Belgian mechanical engineer, best known as the inventor of the Walschaerts valve gear used...
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    replaced by standard Walschaerts gear between 24 March and 11 April 1934. Isaacson's patent valve gear - a modified Walschaerts gear, patented in 1907...
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    arrangement of Allan straight link gear. Walschaerts valve gear invented by Belgian railway mechanical engineer Egide Walschaerts in 1844 becoming the most widely...
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    vehicle was reported to have been very unstable owing to poor weight distribution, a serious disadvantage for a vehicle intended to be able to traverse...
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    usually of the Stephenson type while outside valve gear is usually of the Walschaerts type. However, this is not a rigid rule and most types of valve gear...
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    Piston Drop Corliss Poppet Sleeve Bash Valve gear Gab Stephenson link Joy Walschaerts Allan Baker Corliss Lentz Caprotti Gresley conjugated Southern...
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    PMC 6159993. PMID 30063220. Joguet G, Mansuy JM, Matusali G, Hamdi S, Walschaerts M, Pavili L, et al. (November 2017). "Effect of acute Zika virus infection...
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  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1982). Paper. Johnson, James (1986). Contemporary Physical Distribution and Logistics. Macmillan. ISBN 0023608404....
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    Reichsbahn in East Germany shied away from such major changes to the load distribution, so that only minor modifications in appearance can be seen even in their...
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  • Samuel Wallis, British explorer– Wallis and Futuna Egide Walschaerts, Belgian engineer – Walschaerts valve gear Walpurga, English missionary – Walpurgis Night...
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    (2003), "The Olynthus Mill, Its Origin, and Diffusion: Typology and Distribution", American Journal of Archaeology, 107 (1): 1–21, doi:10.3764/aja.107...
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    and trailer truck were fine-tuned to straighten out the overall weight distribution to achieve better performance. Railway Historian and Author Alvin F....
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    whilst the outside ones propelled the second axle. Steam distribution was by two sets of Walschaerts valve gear on the outside, the motion of the inside valves...
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  • retained three cylinders, but with divided drive and 3 independent sets of Walschaerts valve gear rather than Gresley's own valve gear design. The outside cylinders...
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    having a bore of 430 mm (17 in) and piston stroke of 580 mm (23 in), Walschaerts mechanism, and slide valves. Like the FS 290 locomotives, all 851s were...
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    superheat, long-travel valves, improved lubrication and modified weight distribution. Another new development was the changeover from right- to left-hand...
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    class by enlarging the cylinder diameter and by altering the weight distribution by removing liners from the bogies. This increased the axleload on each...
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    4 Cylinder size 12 in (305 mm) bore 16 in (406 mm) stroke Valve gear Walschaerts Valve type Piston Couplers Bell-and-hook (Cape) Johnston link-and-pin...
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    service on the Witwatersrand. It was superheated, with a Belpaire firebox, Walschaerts valve gear and plate frame. The Class 11 designation was retained when...
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    contribute to its smaller size and weight. The locomotives were fitted with a Walschaerts valve gear similar to all steam locomotives during this era. The overall...
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    class, the ZF1 class Locomotives were based on improved design with Walschaerts valve gear. The years 1976–1977 marked the end of steam powered traction...
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  • plate, to reinforce the bearing or support of the boiler at this point. Walschaerts Valve Gear A valve gear socalled from its inventor, largely in use in...
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    were also developed but their use was generally confined to the local distribution of heavy materials such as coal and building materials from railway stations...
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    regulator valve and snifting (anti-vacuum) valves. The N1 also retained Walschaerts valve gear on both outside cylinders. The main design differences with...
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    differences are those related to the wheel arrangement such as weight distribution and driver diameter. The 170 class was also lighter by 5,000 pounds (2...
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  • simple expansion with 2 outside cylinders. Steam distribution was by slide valves with Walschaerts valve gear. FS AA.VV (1915). L'album dei tipi delle...
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    0-4-4 Fairlie tank engine with 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) driving wheels and Walschaerts valve gear. This had been built by the Avonside Engine Company as a demonstration...
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    the war, these eventually ended up with the China Railway. The exact distribution of Sentetsu's Mikashi-class locomotives after the partition of Korea...
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  • synchronisation of the drive had to be constantly adjusted, to ensure a balanced distribution of effort. Nevertheless, the engines were successful in practice. They...
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    adhesion. The locomotives had 4-inch thick (102-millimetre) bar frames, Walschaerts valve gear to actuate their 9 inches (229 millimetres) diameter piston...
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