Engineers and Mechanics Encyclopedia 1839: Railways

The Engineers and Mechanics Encyclopedia by Luke Herbert. Published 1839 in two volumes by Thomas Kelly.

This is an extract from volume two on Railways.

Index

• Introduction (p373)
• Early Beginings (p374)
• Charles Le Caan (p377 & p380)
• Mr. Carr
• On Building Railways
• Development of Edge Rails (p381)
• Benjamin Wyatt p381
• Penryn Railway p382
• Jonathan Woodhouse (p382)
• The Early Steam-Engine (p386)
• Trevithick and Vivian (p387)
• John Blenkinsop (p395)
• William and E. W. Chapman (p396)
• William Brunton (p398)
• George Stephenson and Ralph Dodd (p401)
• George Stephenson and William Losh (p402)
• John Hawks (p409)
• John Baynes (p409)
• John Birkinshaw (p411)
• Benjamin Thompson (p416)
• Mr. Scott of Ormiston (p420)
• H. R. Palmer (p425)
• T. Chapman (p429)
• Mechanical Resistance of Railways (p431)
• John Richard Barry (p445)
• Julius Griffith (p447)
• David Gordon (p449)
• William Henry James (p454)
• T. Birstall and John Hill (p450)
• David Gordon (p460)
• William Francis Snowden (p462)
• William Henry James (p465)
• J. G. Fisher (p467)
• R. W. Brandling (p468)
• Thomas Hill (p468)
• Goldsworthy Gurney (p468)
• George Cayley (p474)
• Josiah Easton (p475)
• Thomas Shaw Brandreth (p476)
• John and Samuel Seaward (p476)
• Robert Stephenson (p476)
• Robert Midgeley (p478)
• James Viney and George Pocock (p478)
• Samuel Brown (p479)
• Frederick Andrews (p479)
• James Neville (p479)
• William Chapman (p480
• T. S. Holland (p481)
• Dr. Harland (p481)
• Walter Hancock (p481)
• Goldsworthy Gurney (p496)
• William Howard (p499)
• George Medhurst (p501)
• Charles C. Bombas (p502)
• W. Mann
• Maxwell Dick (p503)
• Liverpool and Manchester Railway (p505)
• The Sans Pareil
• The Cyclopede p514
• Nicholas Wood’s Report of the Rainhill Trials
• Samuel W. Wright (p521)
• John Henry Clive (p522)
• Robert Crabtree (p523)
• John Moore (p523)
• James Viney (p523)
• Vignoles and Ericsson (p524)
• Nathan Gough (p525)
• Ross Winans (p526)
• Summers and Ogle (p527)
• Raw and Boase (p530)
• John Hanson (p5330
• William Losh (p534)
• W. G. and R. Heaton p534
• Gillet of Birmingham (p535)
• George Hunter (p536)
• Bramley and Parker (p536)
• Murdoch, Aitken and Co (p536)
• Goldsworthy Gurney (p538)
• David Napier (p541)
• Robert Stephenson (p542)
• G. H. Palmer (p543)
• Mr. Grime of Bury (p548)
• James C. Anderson (p548)
• A. Cochrane (p549)
• George Stephenson (p519)
• George Forrester (p549)
• William H. Church (p549)
• William Henry James (p550)
• Richard Badnall (p551)
• Sharman Converse (p552)
• Mr. Redmund of City Road (p552)
• Harry Scrivenor (p553)
• Richard Trevithick (p554)
• Joseph Gibbs and Augustus Applegarth (p554)
• Mr. Jessop (p554)
• Robert Stephenson (p556)
• Walter Hancock (p562)
• James Frazer (p563)
• Joseph Saxton (p563)
• Charles Dance and Joshua Field (p566)
• John Squire and Francis Macerone (p567)
• George Millichap (p568)
• Benjamin Hick (p568)
• Robert Whitesides (p569)
• T. F. Bergin (p570)
• Butters Bacon (p572)
• Henry Booth (p574)
• John Reynolds (p574)
• Thomas Parkins (p575)
• W. Carpmael (p576)
• John Blyth (p576
• Henry Booth (p576)
• Mr. Massey of Liverpool (p578)
• Tunnels
• Dublin and Kingstown Railway
• Gradients
• Statistics of Railways
• Greenwich Railway
• Concluding Remarks