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.

Author/creator Wood, Nicholas
Other author Smith, George W.
Format Electronic
Edition1st 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.
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : Carey & Lea, 1832 ([Philadelphia?] : Griggs & Dickinson, printers).
Description[24], xi, [ix]-598 p., [9] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Supplemental ContentGale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926
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SeriesSabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926. UNAUTHORIZED
General notePublisher's advertising: [24] p., 1st count.
General notePrinter's statement from t.p. verso.
General noteIncludes index.
General notePref. by the American editor signed (p. xi): George W. Smith; introd. to the 1st ed. dated April, 1825; introd. to the 2nd ed. dated February 22, 1831.
General noteReproduction of original from Yale University Libraries.
General noteSabin no. 105054.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
References RLIN, CTRG06-B184
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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