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| Title | Norris's Hand-book for Locomotive Engineers and Machinists ... |
| Author | Septimus Norris |
| Publisher | Henry Carey Baird, 1854 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Feb 17, 2006 |
| Length | 326 pages |
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