Documents tending to prove the superior advantages of rail-ways and steam carriages over canal navigation

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  Documents tending to prove the superior advantages of rail-ways and steam-carriages over canal navigation

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  Remarks on canal navigation : illustrative of the advantages of the use of steam as a moving power on canals

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  The Reading Rail-Road : its advantages for the cheap transportation of coal, as compared with the Schuylkill Navigation and Lehigh Canal. Nos. I to VIII

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  Observations on a general iron rail-way, or land steam-conveyance ; to supersede the necessity of horses in all public vehicles: showing its vast superiority in every respect, over all the present pitiful methods of conveyance by turnpike roads, canals, and coasting-traders. Containing every species of information relative to rail-roads and loco-motive engines

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  Description of a new method of propelling steam vessels, canal boats, &c. : a relation of recent experiments, and copies of letters received by Mr. John Lee Stevens, the patentee

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  A treatise on navigation by steam : comprising a history of the steam engine, and an essay towards a system of the naval tactics peculiar to steam navigation, as applicable both to commerce and maritime warfare : including a comparison of its advantages as related to other systems in the circumstances of speed, safety and economy, but more particularly in that of the national defence

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