...W T CLARK UK © Thomas Telford and ICE 1840 PIERS STEAM PACKETS BOATS TEMPORARY TIMBER WOOD LEGISLATION PASSENGERS CAUSEWAYS BRICKWORK FOUNDATIONS IRON CAST METALS COLUMNS CONSTRUCTION PILES PILING ARCHES PROMENADES SHIPS STEAMSHIPS RIVERS FRAMES T HEADS RIBS...

... expected on the canal was chiefly the carriage of coal,culmfor burning lime, and lime-stone, all or whichmight be conveyed in a train of small boats linked together and drawn by one horse, to the number of four, six, or eight, as the occasion might require, the chief object being economy in cost...

...H R PALMER 165 X1X.-Experiments o f the Resistance o f Barges moving on Canals, by HENRRY. PALMEEsRp V.P.1st.C.E. Addressed to the late President, THOMTAESLFORD, E s p . THE statementsthathave been laid before the public in reference tothe swift passage of boats along the Ardrossan Canal, having...

...J MACNEILL © Thomas Telford and ICE 1836 EXPERIMENTS CANALS BOATS TRACTIVE POWER DRAWING MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENTS DYNAMOMETERS THEODOLITES VELOCITY CALCULATIONS TRIALS WATERWAYS LOADS SPEED MOTIVE PROPULSION WATER KEELS SCOTLAND FORTH CANAL CLYDE CANAL MONKLAND...