André Chapelon (26 October 1892 – 22 July 1978) was a French mechanical engineer and designer of advanced steam locomotives. A graduate engineer of Ecole...

engineer André Chapelon in applying scientific analysis and a strive for thermal efficiency was an early example of advanced steam technology. Chapelon's protégé...

locomotive exhaust system was designed and patented by French steam engineer André Chapelon, using a second-stage nozzle designed by the Finnish engineer Kyösti...

Weyermann; Walter Mackersie Smith; Samuel Waite Johnson; Richard Deeley; André Chapelon, Livio Dante Porta.) 1 high pressure, 2 low pressure; HP from HP boiler...

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...

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...

Chapelon (French pronunciation: [ʃaplɔ̃]) is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France. Communes of the Loiret department "Répertoire...

Alfred de Glehn and state of the art in their day were modified by André Chapelon to use his later scheme. Some compound internal combustion engines have...

converted by André Chapelon into the legendary SNCF Class 242A1 4-8-4 Northern locomotive. The SNCF, with design input from André Chapelon, developed the...

Glehn in France also saw significant use, especially in the rebuilds of André Chapelon. A wide variety of compound designs were tried around 1900, but most...

passages can be made shorter. This, particularly following the work of André Chapelon, reduces resistance to the flow of steam and improves efficiency The...

lost favour from the 1900s, being replaced by superheating. However André Chapelon rebuilt many of the French De Glehn compounds from 1929 onwards. Alfred...

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'...

of the 20th century, but become outdated as engine power increased. André Chapelon in France continued to work on chimney dimensions and studied them,...

Brazil by the end of 1952. Designed under the direction of engineer André Chapelon, this class demonstrated that large and powerful steam locomotives could...

continuing to apply the great improvements brought about by the work of André Chapelon. The first Pacific locomotive for a German railway was the Baden IV...

along the boiler. Their boilers were superb, which is the reason why André Chapelon later based some of his locomotive boilers on this design. The locomotives...

radiophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1947). October 26 – André Chapelon (died 1978), French steam locomotive designer. November 5 – J. B. S...

Freightliner 04/2002 Scrapped at MoD Caerwent (04/2005) 86103 86203 E3143 André Chapelon 1981–1995 InterCity Virgin Cross-Country 05/1995 Scrapped at Immingham...

Kylälä, and a further flue choke tube added by the French engineer André Chapelon. This split the blastpipe area into four smaller nozzles, and the vertical...

Chicago Great Western Railway 1946–1948, dies (b. 1879). July 22 - André Chapelon, French steam locomotive designer (b. 1892). Rivanna Chapter, National...

person ever to receive a doctorate from Cornell University July 22 – André Chapelon (b. 1892), French steam locomotive designer September 15 – Willy Messerschmitt...

coupling rods through inside cranks on the second and third drivers, André Chapelon considered that this made the locomotive a 2-10-2 rather than a duplex...

professional locomotive engineers such as William Stanier, Oliver Bulleid and André Chapelon, as well as amateurs. It also has local Centres which organise meetings...

designs. Advanced steam technology Andre Chapelon Livio Dante Porta Steam locomotives of the 21st century Chapelon, Andre (2000), La Locomotive a Vapeur (Translation...

Palacio with Gustave Eiffel. Ramses Station, Cairo, Egypt. October 26 – André Chapelon, French steam locomotive designer (d. 1978). July 24 – Thomas Nickerson...

locomotives in France, particularly those rebuilt to the designs of Andre Chapelon, such as the SNCF 240P, used Lentz oscillating-cam poppet valves, which...

Maistre (1949): Wealth Manager Gilles Leclerc (1952): political reporter André Chapelon (1892-1978): engineer who improved the power of steam locomotives Jean...

Compounding contributed to the dramatic increase in power achieved by André Chapelon's rebuilds from 1929. A common application was in articulated locomotives...

and again contemporarily (e.g. by the Bavarian S 3/6, and thereafter André Chapelon designed highly successful modern compound locomotives, proving the...