Engineers and Mechanics Encyclopedia 1839: Railways: Sharman Converse
From Graces Guide
An improvement in the manufacturing of the rails for railroads, was patented by Sharman Converse, late of New York, but now of London, on the 29th of September, 1832, a description of which is given in the Repertory, for April 1833.
The explanation is, however, not very clear; all that we can gather from it being, that the rails are to be connected and sustained longitudinally, by a species of trussing with wrought-iron rods, similar to that employed in trussing girders.
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