The author of the Treatise on Draught, accordingly, concludes against the use of steam-carriages on common roads, chiefly on account of their want of uniform hardness and smoothness, and the consequent wear and tear of the coach.
We accordingly find that the opponents of steam-travelling on common roads, gained their object by covering the highway with a coating of broken stones fourteen inches deep.
Such was the evidence that led the committee to decide, in 1834, on the practicability, the safety, and economy of running steam-carriages on common roads.
The inland transport of the United States is distributed mainly between the rivers, the canals, and the railways, a comparatively small fraction of it being executed on common roads.
The extraordinary extent of railway constructed at so early a period in the United States has been by some ascribed to the absence of a sufficient extent of communication by common roads.
The inventors of locomotive engines consequently directed their attention almost exclusively to the arrangement that would best apply steam power to overcome the varying obstacles and undulations of common roads.
It was, indeed, contemplated by Watt, as a substitute for horse power on common roads, though he does not seem to have contrived any means by which it might be done.
Mr. Murdoch's intention was to employ such carriages on common roads, but he did not proceed to put his plan into operation.
The application of steam-power to the driving of wheel-carriages on common roads was in 1759 brought under the notice of James Watt by his young friend John Robison, then a student at the University of Glasgow.
His first locomotive was constructed to travel on common roads; he afterwards modified it and set it to run on rails at Merthyr Tydvil.
His desire was to construct an engine that would travel on common roads, and travel at a more rapid pace than horses.
Sufficient evidence has been adduced to convince your committee-- "That carriages can be propelled by steam on common roadsat an average rate of ten miles per hour.
Murdock continued to speculate about steam locomotion on common roads, but never carried his ideas further.
He made experiments in steam locomotion on common roads, and took out patents for locomotive steam engines, boilers, driving apparatus, and so on.
But her good mother had often told her of the hurtfulness of these things; and for that reason alone, if there had been no other, she would have resolutely refused to taste them.
Glaucus did as he was bidden, and in due time found Arion, now grown into a tall, graceful youth.
Now, as not so much as a head of asparagus ever presumed to poke itself out of the ground, without the especial permission of Ceres, you may conceive what a terrible calamity had here fallen upon the earth.
Indeed, he felt very much afraid that he had only dreamed about the lustrous stranger, or else that the latter had been making game of him.
It is only particular species of cattle which bear to be carried to market on common roads and by horse carriages.
But modern speculation has not stopped there; various attempts have been made, and attended with more or less success, to work steam-carriages on common roads.
The projectors appear to have contemplated, in the first instance, the use of this carriage on common roads; but that notion seems to have been abandoned, and its use was only adopted on the railroad before mentioned.
For a detailed account of the progress of steam on the highway, see "Steam on Common Roads," etc.
This committee reported that they had become convinced that "the substitution of inanimate for animal power, in draught on common roads, is one of the most important improvements in the means of internal communication ever introduced.
That carriages can be propelled by steam on common roads at an average rate of 10 miles per hour.
A road locomotive for use on common roads, as in agricultural operations.
Road steamer, a locomotive engine adapted to running on common roads.
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