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TitleObservations on a general iron rail-way, or land steam-conveyance;Translate
AuthorGray, Thomas,Translate
TypeBookTranslate
Edition5th ed. ...Translate
ImprintLondon Baldwin, Cradock, and JoyTranslate
Year1825.Translate
Techniquefolded frontispiece, plates (1 folded) plans Translate
Size23 cm Translate
CommentAddress to the Public.......................... rii Circular Letter.................................... xi Advertisement .................................... xiil Petitions to His Majesty's Ministers.................. xvii Petition to the Board of Agriculture.................. xx Petition to the Corporation of the City of London ,..... xxi Explanation of the Draughts of a General Iron Kail-way .. xxiii Observations on a General Iron Rail-way.............. 1 Abstract Statement of the Comparative Difference between Horse and Mechanic Power........................ 76 EXTRACTS. No. I. Mr. Blenkinsop's Patent Steam Carriage and Rail- way ...................................... 78 II. From Martin's Circle of the Mechanical Arts.... 79 III. Partington on the Loco-motive Engine.......... 87 Mr. Jessop's First Report to the Committee of the Promoters of the intended Rail- way from the Cromford Canal to Peak Forest Canal............ 92 ------,--------- Second Report on the same..;..... 101 Prefatory Remarks to the Fourth Extract...... 108 IV. M<=Adam on Roads.......................... 110 V. From the Report of the Committee of the House of Commons on Highways and Turnpike Roads.... 115 VI. Abstract of Retunisof Turnpike Trustsround London 119 VII. Abstract of Minutes of Evidence taken in 1819 ... . 120 VIII. Parliamentary Report on the Turnpike Roads of the United Kingdom ..............,........... J2:>No. IX. W. Wickens, on the Improvement of Roads .... 1B2 X. A Statement of the Value of Canal Property___ 140 XI. On Canals................................ 141 XII. Parliamentary Report on Steam Navigation .... 149 XIII. Parliamentary Report on Steam-packets........ 152 XIV. A Letter signed Agricola.................... 157 APPENDIX. Sundry Recent Extracts from Newspapers.............. 161Translate
LocationUniversiteitsbibliotheek UtrechtTranslate
Call numberP oct 761Translate
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