Anatole Mallet

Jules T. Anatole Mallet (23 May 1837 – 10 October 1919) was a Swiss mechanical engineer, who was the inventor of the first successful compound system for a railway steam locomotive, patented in 1874. He is known for having invented three important forms of compound locomotive. In 1876 he introduced a series of small 0-4-2T tank locomotives for the Bayonne-Anglet-Biarritz Railway in France. He was awarded the Elliott Cresson Medal of The Franklin Institute in 1908. * Early Mallet 2-cylinder compound locomotive working the Bayonne-Anglet-Biarritz (B.A.B.) Railway * * * Mallet tandem compound,

Anatole Mallet

Jules T. Anatole Mallet (23 May 1837 – 10 October 1919) was a Swiss mechanical engineer, who was the inventor of the first successful compound system for a railway steam locomotive, patented in 1874. He is known for having invented three important forms of compound locomotive. In 1876 he introduced a series of small 0-4-2T tank locomotives for the Bayonne-Anglet-Biarritz Railway in France. He was awarded the Elliott Cresson Medal of The Franklin Institute in 1908. * Early Mallet 2-cylinder compound locomotive working the Bayonne-Anglet-Biarritz (B.A.B.) Railway * * * Mallet tandem compound,