Remarks On Canal Navigation Illustrative Of The Advantages Of The Use Of Steam As A Moving Power On Canals PDF Download

Excerpt from Remarks on Canal Navigation, Illustrative of the Advantages of the Use of Steam, as a Moving Power on Canals: With an Appendix, Containing a Series of Experiments, Tables, &C. On Which a Number of Proposed Improvements Are Founded Since the first formation of canals in this country, there have been very few attempts made, to improve the construction of vessels adapted to an inland navigation. The passage boats of the present day are nearly the same as they were fifty years ago; and little, or rather no improvement has taken place in the heavier description of vessels for the conveyance of goods, since the period of their first introduction. Probably this might have gone on in the same state of supposed perfection, had not the introduction of Railways, which are pow in progress, occasioned such a sensation in the country. From the first commencement of canal navigation up to the present time, the average speed of conveyance has never exceeded four miles and a half per hour on passage boat, and two miles and a half on heavy flats. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.