Piston carriage of the Saint Germain atmospheric railway, commissioned in 1835 and abandoned in 1859. Illustration from "Les Merveilles de la science ou description populaire des inventions modernes" written by Louis Figuier and published in 1867 by Furne, Jouvet et Cie.

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