 Calculations and remarks tending to prove the practicability, effects, and advantages of a plan, for the rapid conveyance of goods and passengers on an iron road, through a tube of 30 feet in area, by the power and velocity of air.  Medhurst on Atmospheric Railwaysby George Medhurst - 1810Full view - About this book
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - 1844 - 538 pages
...notions on the subject were first published in 1810.* In 1812 he again published a work entituled, ' Calculations and remarks tending to prove the practicability,...plan, for the rapid conveyance of goods and passengers on an iron road, through a tube of 30 feet in area, by the power and velocity of air."f The calculations... | |
 | William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington - 1845 - 512 pages
...His notions on the subject were first published in 1810. In 1812 he again published a work intituled, 'Calculations and remarks tending to prove the practicability,...plan, for the rapid conveyance of goods and passengers on an iron road, through a tube of 30 feet in area, by the power and velocity of air.' The calculations... | |
 | William Newton - 1845 - 512 pages
...first published in 1810. In 1812 he again published a work intituled, 'Calculations and remarks tendmg to prove the practicability, effects, and advantages...plan, for the rapid conveyance of goods and passengers on an iron road, through a tube of 30 feet in area, by the power and velocity of air.' The calculations... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1864 - 396 pages
...Rapidity by Air. By O. Medhurst, Inventor, Patentee, and Proprietor, I Denmark Street, Soho. London 1810. Calculations and Remarks tending to prove the Practicability,...and Advantages of a Plan for the rapid Conveyance of (foods and Passengers upon an Iron Road, through a Tube of Thirty Feet in Area, by the Power and Velocity... | |
 | 1865 - 1054 pages
...subjoin a few extracts which may be interesting to your readers. The first, iia il ยก812, entitled " A plan for the rapid conveyance of goods and passengers upon an Iron road through a tube 30 ft. area by the power and velocity of air," in which he says " It will be practicable to form a... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) Library - 1866 - 414 pages
...power. 8vo. Plates. Land. 1827 A new system of inland conveyance for goods and passengers, capable of Calculations and remarks, tending to prove the practicability,...and passengers upon an iron road through a tube of 30 feet in area, by the power and velocity of air. Tract. 8vo. vol. 60. Land. 1812 and particulars... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1866 - 390 pages
...Rapidity l>y Air. By O. Medhurst, Inventor, Patentee, and Proprietor, 1 Denmark Street, Soho. London 1810. Calculations and Remarks tending to prove the Practicability,...and Advantages of a Plan for the rapid Conveyance of (foods and Passengers upon an Iron Road, through a Tube of Thirty Feet in Area, by the Power and Velocity... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) Library - 1866 - 414 pages
...8vo. Plates. Lond. 1827 T Calculations and remarks, tending to prove the practicability, effect*, ami advantages of a plan for the rapid conveyance of goods and passengers upon an irnn read through a tube of 30 feet in area, by the power and velocity of air. Tract. 8vo. y*ol. CO.... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1894 - 476 pages
...weight of a ton and a half through brick tunnels, which the carriage , just fitted. In 1812 he published 'Calculations and Remarks tending to prove the Practicability,...and Advantages of a Plan for the Rapid Conveyance of Passengers upon an Iron Railway, through a Tube of Thirty Feet in Area, by the Power and Velocity of... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain). Library - 1895 - 550 pages
...Tract. 8vo. vol. 297. Lond. 1860. 8vo. MEDHURST, G. Calculations and Remarks, tending to prove the . . . advantages of a plan for the rapid Conveyance of Goods...and Passengers upon an iron road through a tube of 30 feet in area, by the power and velocity of Air. Tract. 8vo. vol. 60. Lond. 1812. 8vo. A new Method... | |
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