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Zerah Colburn · Vinony

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Zerah Colburn

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American journalist

Person · Open Library

Born: 1832
Died: 1870
Works: 15

Top works

Locomotive engineering, and the mechanism of railways: a treatise on the principles and construction of the locomotive engine, railway carriages, and railway plant ...
Steam boiler explosions
The waterworks of London
American iron bridges
Locomotive engineering, and the mechanism of railways

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Type: Person
Country: US

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

First-principles computation of material properties: the ABINIT software project
· 2002 · cited 2,881x
ABINIT: First-principles approach to material and nanosystem properties
· 2009 · cited 2,424x
MicroRNA-21 (miR-21) post-transcriptionally downregulates tumor suppressor Pdcd4 and stimulates invasion, intravasation and metastasis in colorectal cancer
· 2007 · cited 1,513x
Loss of foundation species: consequences for the structure and dynamics of forested ecosystems
· 2005 · cited 1,248x
Mass Transfer (Absorption) Coefficients Prediction from Data on Heat Transfer and Fluid Friction
· 1934 · cited 973x

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Key dates

Born: 13 January 1832
Died: 26 April 1870

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Saratoga
Place of death: Belmont
Occupation: journalist
Image: Zerah Colburn (engineer).jpg

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P1196: Suicide
P1889: Zerah Colburn
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1832 births 1870 deaths 1870 suicides 19th-century American engineers 19th-century American journalists 19th-century American male journalists American mechanical engineers American railroad mechanical engineers Engineers from Massachusetts Locomotive builders and designers Suicides by firearm in Massachusetts

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London

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steam locomotive

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Bessemer process

SS Great Eastern

What links here24 pages

Baldwin Locomotive Works

1870 in the United States

John Scott Russell

SS Great Eastern

Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works

Alexander Lyman Holley

William Bridges Adams

1870 in rail transport

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