with observations on those hitherto constructed : and a table, shewing the comparative amount of resistance on several now in use : also an illustration of a newly observed fact relating to the friction of axles, and a description of an improved dynamometer for ascertaining the resistance of floating vessels and carriages moving on roads and railways

shewing the principles of estimating their strength, proportions, expense, and annual produce, and the conditions which render them effective, economical, and durable

also an account of experiments on the strength of iron wires and iron bars and rules and tables for facilitating computations relating to suspension bridges

together with rules deduced from numerous experiments for making an artificial water cement, equal in efficiency to the best natural cements of England, improperly termed Roman cements; and an abstract of the opinions of former authors on the same subjects

... cast iron bridges, iron and gas works ... plan of the harbour and port of London : the whole rendered of the utmost utility to the civil engineer, to the nobility and gentry, as monuments of the useful arts in this country and as examples to the foreign engineer

as applicable to geological and mining plans, picturesque delineations of ornamental grounds, perspective views and working plans of buildings and machinery, and to general purposes of civil engineering

wherein the principles on which roads should be made are explained and illustrated, by the plans, specifications, and contracts

including observations on railway and other locomotive engines, steam navigation, smoke burning, incrustations, explosions, etc., etc

; to which is added an essay on the nature and properies of timber

a series of original communications made to the philosophical magazine, chiefly on those subjects : with copious illustrative notes

practically described and illustrated

from the seventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica