I would very much like to know what fuel was used in these trams to generate steam?
It would seem that the answer is simple! Coal of course !!! True, it is not entirely clear if all factories, factories (and for the construction of this tram it is necessary to melt and forge and press and make glass and cut leather for seats and sawed wood on benches) consumed coal, and steamers and trains were also heated with coal. on coal - where is such a scale of production? Where are such coal mines in the same Europe? Got what? Kirk? Where are the hordes of workers described?
Well, even if they chopped coal. Okay. However, with these trams everything is not so simple!
Here is a typical view of a steam locomotive.
Can you imagine what would have happened if people were sitting on the roof of the car next to him?
I can not imagine. But that one is sitting for itself. And not grimy with soot at all …
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And on the roof there is also a certain incomprehensible structure … What can it serve? Personally, I do not believe that such a car was put on the roof for beauty. Here's another photo.
And again on the roof there is an incomprehensible structure and again two floors on the car.
And here on the roof THIS …
And here it is, and even the headlight.
If we assume that the headlamp is electric (although, of course, this is far-fetched, because there were headlights with a candle inside … Although I can't imagine what they lit up there ahead … a meter?) Then the idea of heating water to a state of steam with this very electricity comes? And that thing on the roof is for getting it from…. Of…. From the atmosphere?
There is a lot of evidence that in the past there were interesting technologies that were not available to us. Moreover, in almost all industries.