Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,256 pages of information and 244,497 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Daniel Stapfer

From Graces Guide

of Stapfer de Duclos, Marseille.

1872 Daniel Stapfer had built a steam tricycle that ran 'at the speed of a trotting horse', but the boiler steaming rate was inadequte and the fire was difficult to maintain, with charcoal or coke.[1]

1875 Report of his investigations, with M. Baret, engineer of the Compagnie des Docks, of Field tubes in boilers.[2]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. [1] Les transports en provence voyages dans Le passé, Le journal des transports, Dec. 2013 No. 83. Note: Large pdf
  2. 'Traité des chaudières à vapeur. Étude sur la vaporisation dans les appareils industriels' by Charles Bellens, Paris, 1895