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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PDF [1]Plat supérieur
PDF 1 [5]Popular Works printed for Knight and Lacey
PDF [17]Illustration
PDF [18]Page de titre
PDF [19]Dedicated, by permission, to the Right Honorable Lord Ravensworth, James Archibald Stuart Worthley, Esq.
PDF 1 [20]Contents.
PDF 4 [23]Errata.
PDF 5 [24]Introduction.
PDF 23 [42]I. Internal Communications.
PDF 33 [52]II. History and progress of rail-roads.
PDF 76 [96]III. Of carriages adapted to rail-roads.
PDF 85 [106]IV. Description of motive power, and disposition of rail-roads.
PDF 157 [181]V. Account of experiments on the strength of cast and malleable iron rails.
PDF 169 [193]VI. Experiments made on the friction and resistance of carriages moved along rail-roads.
PDF 202 [226]VII. Experiments made on the friction of ropes on inclined-planes.
PDF 220 [244]VIII. Observations and experiments on the various kinds of motive power empolyed on rail-roads.
PDF 302 [326]IX. Comparative performances of motive power on canals and rail-roads.
PDF I [339]Illustrations
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