0„ ,, goods „ . . . 48,000000 Since each passenger train transported on an average 70 pas-sengers, and each goods train 60 tons, it follows that the total loco-motion of persons within the year was equivalent to 5040,000000persons carried one mile, and the transport of goods to2880,000000 tons… … STEAM NAVIGATION. CHAPTER I. 1. Inventors of steam navigation uneducated.—2. First steamers on theHudson and the Clyde.—3. Sea-going steamers due to Britishengineers.—4. Progress of steam navigation from 1812 to 1837.—5. Atlantic steamers projected.—6. Abstract possibility of thevoyage could not be…
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