Journal of the Franklin Institute; devoted to science and the mechanic arts (1826)
Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) · Oxford, Eng. [etc.] Pergamon Press [etc.] · leaf 164
system willbe £326 0s. Od. Cast iron can of course only be used in short lengths,and not continuously like wrought iron. The minimum ultimate costof the wrought iron way is not yet ascertained, the reduction in scant-ling being still in course of experiment, but enough has been shown to * The… … In using the small scantling of timber, two obvious advantages arise,—lower cost of material, and greater facility for creosoting, if that pro-cess be applied. It will bring a simpler and cheaper class of timber intouse for railway sleepers. This system is really lower in cost than theAmerican…
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