• André Chapelon (26 October 1892 – 22 July 1978) was a French mechanical engineer and designer of advanced steam locomotives. A graduate engineer of Ecole...
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    engineer André Chapelon in applying scientific analysis and a strive for thermal efficiency was an early example of advanced steam technology. Chapelon's protégé...
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    locomotive exhaust system was designed and patented by French steam engineer André Chapelon, using a second-stage nozzle designed by the Finnish engineer Kyösti...
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    class was a group of 37 (12 + 25) 4-8-0 steam locomotives designed by André Chapelon, and regarded by some, as one of his best designs. They started life...
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  • Weyermann; Walter Mackersie Smith; Samuel Waite Johnson; Richard Deeley; André Chapelon, Livio Dante Porta.) 1 high pressure, 2 low pressure; HP from HP boiler...
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    nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF) in France, French engineer André Chapelon was appointed as the chief designer of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre...
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    lost favour from the 1900s, being replaced by superheating. However André Chapelon rebuilt many of the French De Glehn compounds from 1929 onwards. Alfred...
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  • Chapelon (French pronunciation: [ʃaplɔ̃]) is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France. Communes of the Loiret department "Répertoire...
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    Paris-Orleans railway made a compound demonstrator (160-A1) under the orders of André Chapelon which used a six-cylinder, double expansión configuration with 'resuperheat'...
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  • Chicago Great Western Railway 1946–1948, dies (b. 1879). July 22 - André Chapelon, French steam locomotive designer (b. 1892). Rivanna Chapter, National...
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