Excerpt from The Railway Magazine, and Steam Navigation Journal, 1839, Vol. 6: Containing Copious Accounts of All Railways, at Home and Abroad; With Wyld's Map of the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railways, Numerous Wood Engravings, Etc., Notices of Inventions, and Scientific Discoveries
Atmospheric Resistance on Railways. By Henry Booth, Esq President of the Liverpool Polytechnic Society, and Treasurer, M, to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, communicated by Y. Z.
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