Railroad accidents
Subtitle: their causes and the means of preventing them. By Émile With ... With an introduction by Auguste Perdonnet ... Tr. from the French, with an appendix, by G. Forrester Barstow ...
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9781425513207
Subjects: American history; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; History / United States / General; United States - General
First sentence: FOR some months, railroad accidents have become so common, that it seems as though science was altogether powerless in preventing them; in truth, they are always occasioned by the imprudence of passengers, the want of foresight in those employed on the road, or by a concurrence of fatal, but very natural circumstances.