1852-1853: Bildliche Darstellung der Geschichte der ausschl. privil. Kaiser Ferdinand`s Nordbahn vom Beginn des Betriebes bis zum abgelaufenen Jahre. Entworfen end bearbeitet von Josef. Stummer, Lithographie und farbendrund von H. Engle. Wien 1855. : Bildliche Darstellung der Geschichte der ausschl. privil. Kaiser Ferdinand`s Nordbahn vom Beginn des Betriebes bis zum abgelaufenen Jahre. Entworfen end bearbeitet von Josef. Stummer, Lithographie und farbendrund von H. Engle. Wien 1855. : 1852-1853: Bildliche Darstellung der Geschichte der ausschl. privil. Kaiser Ferdinand`s Nordbahn

Visual representation and data visualization of the history of the Emperor Ferdinand Northern railway from the beginning of the operation on the 6th. of January 1838 to the end of the year 1853. Series of 9 lithographs consisting of 8 sheets and title page, plus a sheet of explanations in 3 languages ​​and booklet of 8 pages on the development of the Kaiser Ferdinands Nordbahn in the first 16 years of its existence. Each two years on a sheet shows in addition to the route network and the locomotive and wagon inventory, revenues, freight, types of shipments, dividends paid, types of revenue and many other statistics. There are 2 years on every sheet, the horizontal scale is the timeline with the major events of the company like the opening of a new part of the track. There is a map of the rail network on every sheet for every year. The vertical scale are the revenues, from the bottom to the top income with passengers, from the top to the bottom income for transport of goods. In the lower right of every year you can see the number of locomotives, close to the center the number of the different wagons:1st class, 2nd class, 3rd class and freight wagons. As a data visualization this is very unusual in the amount of different kinds of data mixed together on one chart, over time. It is also very early for such an ambitious effort.