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 a notice of its early history in the East, and in all the quarters of the globe : a description of the great mechanical inventions, which have caused its unexampled extension in Britain : and a view of the present state of the manufacture and the condition of the classes engaged in its several departments

an historical and descriptive account of the water works of London and the contrivances for supplying other great cities, in different ages and countries

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

practically described and illustrated

historical, theoretical and practical : illustrated by upwards of three thousend engravings on wood by R. Branston