A practical treatise on rail-roads and interior communication in general : containing an account of the performances of the different locomotive engines at and subsequent to the Liverpool Contest : upwards of two hundred and sixty experiments : with tables of the comparative value of canals and rail-roads and the power of the present locomotive engines / /by Nicholas Wood ; [preface by the American editor [George W. Smith]]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wood, Nicholas, 1795-1865.

Series:

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Railroads--Early works to 1850.

Railroads.

Canals.

Railroads--Great Britain.

Railroads--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (598, [2] p., 13 leaves of plates (some fold.) ) ill. ;

Edition:

1st American from the 2nd English ed. / with corrections, notes, and additions : also, an appendix, containing a detailed account of a number of rail-roads in Europe and in the United States.

Other Title:

Practical treatise on rail-roads and interior communication in general

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Carey & Lea, 1832 ([Philadelphia] : Griggs and Dickinson, printers)

Notes:

Printer statement from verso, t.p.

Eight out of the thirteen plates are numbered.

Includes index.

Reproduction of original from Yale University Libraries.

Sabin no. 105054.

Cited in:

RLIN, CTRG05-B10141

OCLC:

123446577