with a practical investigation of its structure and application

with plates of the coaches, machines, &c. : with descriptive particulars, serving as a guide to travellers on the railway

with an historical notice of the rise and progressive improvement of the steam-engine : being the prize essay on this subject at the London Mechanics' Institution in the year 1833

together with those which have been abandoned for the present session; to which are added, a table of distances from the proposed London termini to eight well-known places in the metropolis; a table exhibiting the length, cost, tunnelling, curves, etc., of each of the railways for which bills are now in progress through Parliament : with a glossary; and other useful information

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

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, a glossary of technical terms, used in civil engineering, explaining and illustrating every word in ordinary use; and the details of Hawthorne's celebrated locomotive engine, for the Paris and Versailles railway

practically described and illustrated

with an account of its invention and progressive improvement, and its application to navigation and railways; including also a memoir of Watt

from the seventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica