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; ... London : Knight & Lacey, 1825
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Front cover
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1Popular Works printed for Knight and Lacey
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Illustration
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Title page
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Dedicated, by permission, to the Right Honorable Lord Ravensworth, James Archibald Stuart Worthley, Esq.
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1Contents.
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4Errata.
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5Introduction.
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23I. Internal Communications.
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33II. History and progress of rail-roads.
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76III. Of carriages adapted to rail-roads.
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85IV. Description of motive power, and disposition of rail-roads.
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157V. Account of experiments on the strength of cast and malleable iron rails.
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169VI. Experiments made on the friction and resistance of carriages moved along rail-roads.
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202VII. Experiments made on the friction of ropes on inclined-planes.
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220VIII. Observations and experiments on the various kinds of motive power empolyed on rail-roads.
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302IX. Comparative performances of motive power on canals and rail-roads.
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IIllustrations
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