Report on Steam Carriages

advantage Alleghany mountain amount applied average Baltimore and Ohio boat boiler breadth calculated carriage drawn carry cent charge Chesapeake and Ohio coal committee common roads construction conveyance conveyed cost of transportation diameter distance dollars draught drawing drawn by horses effect Ellicott's mills embankments equal Erie canal estimate excavation exceed expense experience favor feet four horses friction fuel greater half Harper's Ferry hill Holyhead horse power improvement inches inclined planes increase injury length less Liverpool Liverpool and Manchester load locks locomotive engine machinery Manchester Mauch Chunk miles an hour miles per hour navigation Ohio canal Ohio railroad opinion passengers passing Point of Rocks Port Dundas Potomac present propelling proportion quantity rails railway repairs riage river speed stage coach steam carriages steam coaches steam engine stone supposed surface tion tire toll tracks travelling tunnel turnpike roads velocity wagons weight wheels width