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A practical treatise on rail-roads, and interior communication in general : with original experiments, and tables of the comparative value of canals and rail-roads; ... / Nicholas Wood
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ON kAil-roads.TABLE 111.

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Table of the line of road bn Which one horsfe travelswith six loaded carriages, eich weighing 8,.'5401bs. similarto Experiment IV. No. 1.; and returns with six empty car-riages, each weighing 2,6041bs. same as Experiment IV.No. 7.Edge-rail, Killingworth Colliery Rail-road, frictionloaded carriages 401bs., empty carriages 141bs.

Respective dis-tances in feet.

Deecent of planein inches*

Gravity of sixloaded carriagesdown the planein lbs.

Total resistance,being the ditfev-lence between the

1 friction and gra-

1 viiy in lbs.

Gravity of the 6empty carriagesup the planein lbs.

Total resistance,bejng the gra*vity and frictiontogether in lbs.

330

6.5

84

156

25

109

330

12.

155

85

47

131

330

16.5

213

27

65

149

330

18.5

239

1

72

156

330

14.

181

59

55

139

330

17.

219

21

67

161

330

18.

232

8

71

155

330

30.5

394

.

120

204

330

44.

569

.

173

257

330

25.5

329

100

184

330

2.

25

215

7

91

330

8.

103

137

31

115

330

11.

142

198

43

127

330

24.

310

94

178

330

23.5

304

#

92

176

330

0

0

240

0

84

330

14.

181

#

55

139

330

40.

517

157

241

330

33.5

433

,

132

216

108

9 .

194

46

59

143

On examining the above Table, it will beseen that the average resistance with the loadis about 60 lbs. ; and in returning with theempty carriages 157 lbs., the mean 109 lbs.The distance 2156 yards.

The horses were very large and heavy ; they