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1824 Patent granted to William Francis Snowden, of Oxford-street, London, on the 18th of December 1824, for a "new invented wheel way and its carriages for the conveyance of passengers, merchandise, and other things, along roads, rails, and other ways, either on a level or inclined plane."
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