The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 468
, forming a gross weightof about 800 tons, were dragged along the canal simultaneously, withno other force than the simple adhesion of the wheel of the carriageto the surface of the rail. In another experiment, a train of five boats,capable of carrying 400 to 500 passengers, was taken along at the… … Fig. 2 Fig. 3.
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