Levi Bissell
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Bissel frame on a locomotive from the Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works factory (1863)
Levi Bissell (alternative spelling: Levi Bissel ; * 1800 ; † August 5, 1873 in New York ) was an American inventor and railway designer.
Bissell was already mentioned in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine - issue 6, author: Edgar Allan Poe (Philadelphia, 1840) - as well as in the Polytechnisches Journal - Volume 77 (Stuttgart, 1840) - when he invented an "air machine" in Newark . Bissell became known as the designer of the bogie cradle (1841) and the Bissel frame , which he used in a steam locomotive in 1857 .
literature
- Lexicon railroad . Transpress VEB publishing house for transport . Berlin, 1978
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.google.com/patents/US62727
- ↑ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/steam_tech/message/48736
- ↑ http://www.eapoe.org/works/misc/scnart02.htm
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SURNAME | Bissell, Levi |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bissel, Levi |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Railway engineer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1800 |
DATE OF DEATH | August 5, 1873 |
Place of death | new York |