Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 132
ith Mr,Sylvester is as great as can be ventured on with safety. This passage,which reads so strangely now, may be seen in the Quarterly Review forMarch, 1825. But still more curious appear now the reports of the debatesin Parliament, and of the evidence taken before the Parliamentary Com-mittee, in… … Fig. 42.—Rails and Cramp-gauge. When it has been decided to construct a railway between two places,the laying-out of the line is a subject requiring great consideration and thehighest engineering skill—for the matter is, on account of the great cost,much more important than the setting-out of a…
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