Remarks upon the defects of railway tracks, and their remedy, by the adoption of a new form of railway bar. By Benjamin H. Latrobe ...
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 20
ISBN-13: 9781418191313
Subjects: History / United States / General
First sentence: ALTHOUGH the railway structure, in its simple elements, is not an invention of modern times, (the Egyptians are supposed to have used it,) and although in its more matured form, it is now upwards of twenty years old, yet it is still in a progressive state, and is admitted on all hands not to have attained perfection, but to be marked by some serious defects.