Title | Observations on a general iron rail-way, or land steam-conveyance; | Translate
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Author | Gray, Thomas, | Translate
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Type | Book | Translate
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Edition | 5th ed. ... | Translate
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Imprint | London Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy | Translate
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Year | 1825. | Translate
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Technique | folded frontispiece, plates (1 folded) plans | Translate
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Size | 23 cm | Translate
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Comment | Address 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.............. 161 | Translate
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Location | Universiteitsbibliotheek Utrecht | Translate
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Call number | P oct 761 | Translate
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