The Iron Ways, Bridges, Rails & Rolling Stock, Cheap Transit Combined with Steam Farming; Or, Agriculture Self-Protected (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1850 Excerpt: ... THE IRON WAYS, BRIDGES, HAILS & ROLLING STOCK, CHEAP TRANSIT, Ac. 1. Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges. Published with the permission of Robert Stephenson, Civil Engineer. By a Resident Assistant. London: Weale, Holborn. 2. Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges, By William Fairbairn, C.E. Weale, Holborn. 3. Bow-string Bridges, Blackwall Extension Railway. Joseph Locke, C.E. 4. Captain Warren--Triangular-frame Tension Bridges, 5. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Robert Stephenson, Esq., C.E., President. October, 1849. G. Herapath's Journal, Nov. 24th, 1849. Article: --"Cannot Railways be worked cheaper?" 7. Railway Times, Nov. 24th, 1849. Article: --"Railway Owners and Railway Passengers." 8.--Mechanics' Magazine. November 24, 1849. Article: --"Light Load Light Engine System of Railway Transit/ ""T TIRES acquirit eundo"--gathering strength as it goes--- onward marches the railway system, gradually sloughing off the old and effete--the practice-proved defects--and replacing them with newer and more efficient appliances, some of a permanent and some of an ephemeral character, but always progressive. And, in truth, throughout all the arts of life we get very much of the knowledge of what will do, by successive trials of B 2 what will not do. And this truth even Mr. Watt frequently proclaimed of his own mechanical doings, when in the social circle. Of the waste of capital involved in railway making we do not care to speak much, save as a warning for the future. "Gone is gone;" but the real waste has in truth been small. Changing hands has been the chief phenomenon, and though it is pitiable to think that the trust property of the widow and the orphan should pass over to a Hudson--who, after all, wajs but a mock King of Railways by the ...