A Practical Treatise On Railways Explaining Their Construction And Management With Numerous Woodcuts And Ten Plates PDF Download

Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on Railways: Explaining Their Construction and Management, With Numerous Woodcuts and Ten Plates; Being the Article "Railways" In the Seventh Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, With Additional Details The article, as there printed, contains that portion of the subject which is least liable to change in the march of improvement. Alterations, however, will unavoidably take place to a certain extent in the various machinery and appliances of these important works and while we are now writing, a completely new and original mode of hanging the bodies of coaches to their under carriages, by Springs perfectly different from any at the present time in use, is under trial, and the impression is gene rally in its favour. It is also beginning to be admitted in many quarters, that some government regulations are imperatively call ed for with respect to railways. The nature and extent of these regulations can only be fully developed by time and experience. The safest mode of proceeding, how ever, will be not to do too much at first. 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.