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- TABLE DES MATIÈRES
- TABLE DES ILLUSTRATIONS
- RECHERCHE DANS LE DOCUMENT
- TEXTE OCÉRISÉ
- Première image
- PAGE DE TITRE
- Introduction to the first edition (p.r5)
- Introduction to the second edition (p.r9)
- Introduction to the third edition (p.r15)
- CONTENTS (p.r19)
- Errata (n.n.)
- Chap. I. Internal Communication (p.1)
- Chap. II. Description of Rails, and Progress of Railroads (p.20)
- 1.Wooden Rails (p.20)
- 2.Cast-iron Rails. Plate Rail (p.25)
- 3.Ditto. Edge Rail (p.28)
- 4.Malleable Iron Rails. Ditto (p.41)
- 5.Ditto. Different Forms of Rails (p.47)
- 6.Comparative Qualities, of cast and wrought Iron for Rails (p.55)
- 7.Comparative Properties of Edge and Plate Rails (p.60)
- 8.Stone Railways (p.62)
- Chap. III. On the Strength and Stiffness, and best Form of Section of Cast and Malleable Iron Rails (p.65)
- 1. General Remarks on Materials best adapted for Rails (p.65)
- 2. Strongest Form of Section (p.66)
- 3. Rigidity of different Kinds of malleable Iron Rails (p.71)
- 4. Experiments on the comparative Rigidity of malleable Iron Bars (p.84)
- 5. Increase of Resistance, by the Deflection of Railway Bars (p.112)
- 6. Expansion and Contraction, of wrought Iron Bars (p.124)
- 7. Experiments on the Strength of cast Iron Rails (p.126)
- 8. Comparative Durability, of cast and wrought Iron RailwayBars (p.130)
- 9. Comparative Resistance to the Carriages, of cast and wrought Iron Railway Bars » (p.133)
- Chap. IV. On the Formation, and Construction of Railways (p.135)
- 1. Formation of the Line of Railway (p.135)
- 2. Earthwork, Excavating and Embanking (p.136)
- 3. Width of Railway at the Formation Level (p.138)
- 4. Width between the Rails (p.138)
- 5. Width between the Two Lines (p.140)
- 6. Width on the Outside of the Rails (p.140)
- 7. Width of Excavations (p.146)
- 8. Width of Embankments (p.146)
- 9. Slopes of Excavations and Embankments (p.147)
- 10. Fencing the Railway (p.148)
- 11. Coating the Railway, &c. (p.149)
- 12. Setting the Blocks (p.150)
- 13. Seating the Chairs upon the Blocks (p.155)
- 14. Keying the Rails to the Chairs, and Form of joining the Rails at their Ends (p.157)
- 15. On Curves on the Line of Railway (p.163)
- 16. Plan of crossing Streets and Turnpikes (p.167)
- 17. Mode of passing yielding Ground or Mosses (p.169)
- 18. Construction of Passing Places and Turn Tables (p.172)
- Chap. V. Construction of Carriages adapted to Railroads (p.189)
- 1. Coal Waggons, with Wooden Wheels (p.189)
- 2. Cast Iron Wheels (p.190)
- 3. Ditto case-hardened (p.192)
- 4. Ditto with wrought Iron Tires (p.195)
- 5. Wrought Iron Wheels (p.198)
- 6. Form of Axles, and Bearings (p.200)
- 7. Modern Coal Waggons, or Carriages (p.207)
- 8. Truck for Conveyance of gênerai Merchandize (p.209)
- 9. Common Passenger Carriages (p.211)
- 10. First Class Passenger Carriages (p.213)
- 11. Mode of coupling Carriages, or Buffing Apparatus (p.215)
- Chap. VI. Description of the different Kinds of Motive Power used on Railroads, and Disposition of the Road for their Application (p.227)
- 1. Different Kinds of Motive Power, used at various periods on Railroads (p.227)
- 2. Horses (p.231)
- 3. Gravity- Self-acting Planes (p.233)
- 4. Steam Engines, fixed upon ascending Planes (p.250)
- Art. 1. Descending Planes, with sufficient Gravity to enable the Carriages to drag a Rope after them (p.251)
- Art. 2. Where Goods are to be conveyed on a descending Plane, the Inclination of which is not sufficient to enable the descending Carriages to drag the Rope after them (p.253)
- Art. 3. Double Plane, with an Engine on the Summit (p.254)
- Art. 4. Successive Engine Planes, from one End of the Line to the other (p.256)
- Art. 5. Description of the different Engine Planes (p.257)
- 5. Locomotive Steam Engines (p.275)
- Art. 1. Trevithick and Vivian's Engine (p.277)
- Art. 2. Blenkinsop's Engine (p.279)
- Art. 3. Chapman'sDitto (p.282)
- Art. 4. Brunton's Ditto (p.282)
- Art. 5. Blackett's Ditto (p.286)
- Art. 6. Stephenson's Killingworth Engine (p.287)
- Art. 7. Experiments at Liverpool (p.301)
- Art. 8. Liverpool Experiments, Stephenson's Rocket Engine (p.309)
- Art. 9. Hackworth's Engine (p.316)
- Art. 10. Braithwaite and Ericsson's Engine (p.320)
- Art. 11. Description of the Rocket Engine (p.324)
- Art. 12. Description of the Sans Pareil Engine (p.326)
- Art. 13. Description of the Novelty Engine (p.328)
- Art. 14. Description of the improved Killingworth Engines (p.333)
- Art. 15. Description of the modern Engines for public Railways (p.334)
- Boiler, and Method of generating Steam (p.335)
- Mode of admitting the Steam into the Cylinders, and of working the Engine (p.342)
- Tables of the Dimensions of Locomotive Engines (p.352)
- Chap. VII. On the Friction and Resistance of Carriages on Railroads (p.353)
- 1. Different Kinds of Friction (p.353)
- 2. Friction with respect to Weight. Coal Waggons with inside Bearings (p.357)
- 3. Friction with regard to Velocity. Coal Waggons (p.367)
- 4. Friction of Carriages, with outside Bearings (p.373)
- Determination of Rolling Friction (p.382)
- 5. Determination of Friction of Attrition (p.389)
- 6. Friction with regard to Area of Bearing (p.404)
- Friction with different Unguents (p.406)
- Theoretical Conclusions, deduced from Experiments on Friction (p.409)
- 7. Tables of the Resistance of Carriages on different Gradients on Railroads (p.411)
- Friction on Plate Rails (p.414)
- Chap. VIII. Friction of Ropes used by fixed Engines on Railroads (p.415)
- Chap. IX. Theory and Application of the various Kinds of Motive Power used on Railroads (p.430)
- 1. Horses (p.430)
- Art. 1. Experiments on the Performances of Horses on Railroads (p.431)
- Art. 2. Experiments on the Performances of Horses on Turnpike Roads (p.437)
- Art. 3. Performances of Horses dragging Boats on Canals (p.439)
- Art. 4. Result of the foregoing Experiments (p.441)
- Art. 5. Theoretical Considerations of the Power of Horses (p.441)
- Art. 6. Practical Conclusions of the Performance of Horses on Railroads (p.446)
- Art. 7. Cost of conveying Goods on Railroads by Horses (p.449)
- 2. Self-acting Planes (p.451)
- 3. Fixed Steam-engine Planes (p.455)
- 4. Locomotive Engines (p.464)
- Art. 1. Adhesion of the Wheels upon the Rails (p.465)
- Experiments upon the Adhesion (p.466)
- Art. 2. Table of the Amount of Adhesion (p.477)
- Art. 3. Friction of Engines unloaded (p.481)
- a. Friction of the Killingworth Engines (p.483)
- b. Friction of the Liverpool Engines (p.484)
- c. Table of the Friction of Engines without a Load (p.485)
- Art. 4. Friction of Engines loaded (p.487)
- a. Friction of Killingworth Engines (p.489)
- b. Friction of Liverpool Engines (p.496)
- c. Table of the Friction of Engines loaded (p.503)
- Art. 5. Investigations of the Mode of raising Steam in Locomotive Engines (p.504)
- a. Investigations of the old Engines (p.506)
- b. Investigations of the Liverpool experimental Engines (p.506)
- c. Investigations of the Liverpool improved Engines (p.515)
- Art. 6. Evaporating Powers of Locomotive Engines (p.520)
- a. Evaporating Powers of Killingworth improved Engine (p.521)
- b. Relative Powers of Evaporation of radiant and communicative Calorie (p.524)
- c. Evaporating Powers of the modern Engines (p.525)
- d. Evaporating Power at different Rates of Speed (p.527)
- Art. 7. Consumption of Fuel (p.530)
- a. Consumption of the old Engines (p.531)
- b. Consumption of the improved Engines (p.540)
- c. Table of the Consumption of Fuel of the modern Engines (p.542)
- Art. 8. Power of Locomotive Engines (p.547)
- a. Explanation of the Principles which govern the Power of Locomotive Engines (p.552)
- b. Theory of the Power of Locomotive Engines (p.556)
- c. Power of Engines with respect to Velocity with different Loads (p.561)
- d. Power of Engines with respect to Loads at different Velocities (p.563)
- e. Comparative useful Effect of Engines travelling at different Rates of Speed (p.564)
- f. Theory of the Power of Engines on Inclined Planes (p.568)
- g. Table of the Power of Engines on Inclined Planes (p.577)
- Art. 9. Cost of Locomotive Engines on Railroads (p.582)
- a. Expense of working the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (p.583)
- 1. Locomotive Power, or Haulage of Goods and Passengers (p.593)
- 2. Maintenance of Railway (p.597)
- 3. Coaching Department, or Expense of conveying Passengers (p.599)
- 4. Carrying Department, or Cost of conveying Goods (p.600)
- 5. & 6. Stationary Engine, and general Expenses (p.601)
- Table of the Cost of conveying Goods and Passengers on the Liverpool Railway (p.603)
- b. Expense of working the Stockton and Darlington Railway (p.604)
- c. Expense of working the Clarence Railway (p.606)
- d. Expense of working the Killingworth Railway (p.607)
- e. Cost of Conveyance generally, with different Descriptions of Traffic, on Railways (p.608)
- f. Table of the Cost of conveying, heavy Goods on Railways (p.616)
- g. Table of the Cost of conveying Goods and Passengers on Railways (p.616)
- 1. Horses (p.430)
- Chap. X. Comparison of the different Descriptions of Motive Power on Railroads (p.620)
- Chap. XI. Turnpike Roads (p.642)
- Chap. XII. On Canals (p.651)
- Chap. XIII. Comparison of the different Modes of internal Communication (p.680)
- Chap. XIV. The Construction of the Great Western Railway, and the Locomotive Power to be used thereon (p.708)
- APPENDIX (p.729)
- Note A. Experiment on the Wear of Rails, Liverpool and Manchester Railway (p.729)
- Note B. Professor Barlow's Formula for calculating the strongest Form of Section of a Railway Bar (p.729)
- Note C. Professor Barlow's Formula for calculating the Rigidity of Railway Bars (p.730)
- Note D. Petition of Coach Proprietors, showing the Expense of Coaches on Turnpike Roads (p.732)
- Note E. Experiments at Mr. Laird's Works at Liverpool, on Ericsson's Plan of Boiler (p.733)
- Note F. Section of Stockton and Darlington Railway (p.735)
- Note G. Cost of Repairs of Stockton and Darlington Engines (p.736)
- Note H. Performance, and Cost of Labour, &c. of Ditto (p.737)
- Note I. Cost of Repairs of Stanhope and Tyne Railway Engines, 1835 (p.737)
- Note K. Cost of Repairs of Stanhope and Tyne Railway Engines, 1836 (p.737)
- Note L. Charges on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway (p.738)
- Note M. Estimates of Cost of fixed and locomotive Engines (p.740)
- Note N. Estimates of Cost of fixed and locomotive Engines (p.747)
- Note O. Estimates of Cost of fixed and locomotive Engines (p.750)
- Note P. Estimates of Cost of fixed and locomotive Engines (p.753)
- Note Q. Wear of Ropes (p.757)
- Note R. Mr. Walker's Experiments on the Resistance of Boats at different Rates of Speed (p.758)
- Note S. Section of the Durham and Sunderland Railway (p.760)
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PRACTICAL TREATISE
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AND INTERIOR COMMUNICATION IN GENERAL.
CONTAINING
NUMEROUS EXPERIMENTS ON THE POWERS OF THE IMPROVED LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES:
AND
TABLES OF THE COMPARATIVE COST OF CONVEYANCE ON CANALS, RAILWAYS, AND TURNPIKE ROADS.
THIRD EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS.
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% U 3aL
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PRACTICAL TREATISE
ON
RAIL-ROADS,
AND INTERIOR COMMUNICATION IN GENERAL.
CONTAINING
NUMEROUS EXPERIMENTS ON THE POWERS OF THE IMPROVED LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES:
AND
TABLES OF THE COMPARATIVE COST OF CONVEYANCE ON CANALS, RAILWAYS, AND TURNPIKE ROADS.
THIRD EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS.
3(Hu0Katet> bp several Jf2eto <E£ti0rat>mg0»
BY NICHOLAS WOOD,
COLLIERY VIEWER, MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, ETC.
“ Should we live to see fully developed all the powers and energies of this system, we have no doubt we shall also live to see It recognised, as one of the very greatest benefits which either philosophy or art has ever conferred on mankind.”— Quarterly Review.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR
LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, &
PATERNOSTER-ROW.
1838.
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