Introduction -- 1. Trade, transport and coal 1767-1815 -- 2. 'Rails best adapted to the road': cast-iron rails and their alternatives in Britain 1767-1832 -- 3. Canal feeders, quarry railways and ...

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For Throwback Thursday, we rummage through the drawers of culinary history to rediscover how we came to eat the way we do. This week’s throwback finds us aboard an early railway carriage — hungry, ...

The ubiquitous railway -- The earliest guideways -- Wooden rails -- The impellent force of fire -- Iron rails. The iron plateways ; Stone rails ; The iron edge railways -- Rope and chain, the inclined ...

IT is known that in the archives of various foreign countries there are documents of interest to students of the history of technology; but seldom is any of this material published. One such document, ...