The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 179
motion by atmospheric pressure. The first useful application of the idea appears to have been sug-gested by the Danish engineer Medhurst, who, in 1810, proposed totransport letters and merchandize in a tunnel containing a road of ironor stone. Another project was that of travelling from London… … 1845.] THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. 149 of the problem. It must be more agreeable, says lie, with greatnaivett; to travel in the open air than in a dark tube, si-tting aside thepleasure of seeing the country througli which one is passing. Med-hurst proposed to transmit the action of a…
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