Common Roads Research Articles

Road Locomotion 1

THE author commenced by saying that the subject of mechanical propulsion upon common roads had now reached a point when it deserves the very careful consideration of mechanical engineers.

The steam carriage for common roads

The steam carriage for common roads

Power Locomotion on the Highway

THE sub-title of this publication sufficiently expresses the character of the contents; it is “a guide to the literature relating to traction engines and steam rollers and to the propulsion of common road carriages and velocipedes by steam and other mechanical power, with a brief historical sketch.” The historical sketch is a concise statement of the lines along which progress in power locomotion on common roads has proceeded. Following it is a bibliography of works on mechanical carriages and traction engines, a catalogue of papers read before, or appearing in the Transactions of, scientific and technical societies, indexed under names of authors, a list of journals devoted to the mechanical carriage movement, and an index to articles on the subject in periodical literature up to the end of 1895. The periodicals indexed include those of the United States, France, and Germany, as well as of Great Britain. The author has evidently been at considerable pains to prepare his descriptive index, and his efforts deserve encouragement. It would be an immense boon if indexes of the same description were available for other branches of technology. The reception afforded to this little book will show whether the demand is sufficient to justify the publication of others of a like kind.

The steam carriage for common roads

Journal Article The steam carriage for common roads Get access R. B. R. B. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s8-X, Issue 238, 18 July 1896, Page 64, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s8-X.238.64a Published: 18 July 1896

Common Roads, Railways and River Communications in Portugal

Common roads or highways are classified under the following heads: First-class or royal roads, second-class or district roads, and third-class or municipal roads. First-class roads connect Lisbon with the chief towns of the districts and with the principal places on the frontier. Second-class roads connect the above named and the cities and principal towns either with each other or with the railway stations and river ports; and lastly, those of the third class join the townships or concelhos with each other or with the preceding roads. The continental part of Portugal is divided into administrative districts, and these into townships or concelhos.

Traction Engines for Common Roads

Traction Engines for Common Roads

The new york “central park”

Two different methods employed in constructing gravel road—1st. Roads with paved (Telford) foundations. Gravel; its desirable qualities. Samples of gravel obtained from the surrounding country. Pit-gravel and sea-shore gravel. Binding material. Failure in the trial of sea-shore gravel. Recapitulation of the qualities of gravel. Treatment of gravel on the roads. Screened gravel used. How binding material was applied. Shaping and rolling road. Failure to pack gravel without binding material. Evidence developed from year to year of the qualities of gravel road. Superiority of screened gravel road; its striking economy. Analysis of screened gravel roads, and of broken stone road. Gravel road for common roads.

The New York “Central Park”

Abstract Two different methods employed in constructing gravel road—1st. Roads with paved (Telford) foundations. Gravel; its desirable qualities. Samples of gravel obtained from the surrounding country. Pit-gravel and sea-shore gravel. Binding material. Failure in the trial of sea-shore gravel. Recapitulation of the qualities of gravel. Treatment of gravel on the roads. Screened gravel used. How binding material was applied. Shaping and rolling road. Failure to pack gravel without binding material. Evidence developed from year to year of the qualities of gravel road. Superiority of screened gravel road; its striking economy. Analysis of screened gravel roads, and of broken stone road. Gravel road for common roads.

A Budget of Paradoxes (Continued from page 188)

In 1842-43 a Mr. Henson had proposed what he called an aeronaut steam-engine, and a Bill was brought in to incorporate an “Aerial Transit Company.” The present plan is altogether different, the moving power being the explosion of mixed hydrogen and air. Nothing came of it—not even a Bill. What the final destiny of the balloon may be no one knows: it may reasonably be suspected that difficulties will at last be overcome. Darwin, in his Botanic Garden (1781), has the following prophecy:—“Soon shall thy arm, unconquered Steam! afarDrag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;Or, on wide-waving wings expanded, bearThe flying chariot through the fields of air.”Darwin's contemporaries, no doubt, smiled pity on the poor man. It is worth note that the two true prophecies have been fulfilled in a sense different from that of the predictions. Darwin was thinking of the suggestion of Jonathan Hulls, when he spoke of dragging the slow barge: it is only very recently that the steam-tug has been employed on the canals. The car was to be driven, not drawn, and on the common roads. Perhaps, the flying chariot will be something of a character which we cannot imagine, even with the two prophecies and their fulfilments to help us.

Horse railways on common roads

Horse railways on common roads

Description of Cugnot's Original Invention of the Locomotive Steam Engine for Common Roads

Description of Cugnot's Original Invention of the Locomotive Steam Engine for Common Roads

Gen. Pasleyon crossing Railways, by common roads of the same level

Gen. Pasleyon crossing Railways, by common roads of the same level

Steam conveyances ob common roads

Steam conveyances ob common roads

Locomotives on common roads

Locomotives on common roads

Steam carriages on common roads

Steam carriages on common roads

XLII. Results of some experiments on the actual force of draught of carriages upon common roads

"XLII. Results of some experiments on the actual force of draught of carriages upon common roads ." The Philosophical Magazine, 7(40), pp. 286–287

IX. An account of the locusts, which did vast damage in Walachia, Moldavia, and Transilvania, in the Years 1747 and 1748; and of some swarms of them, which, in the months of July and August 1748. came into Hungary and Poland; by a Gentleman who lives in Transilvania

It is certain that the Locusts came into Transilvania from Walachia and Moldavia , and particularly thro' those narrow Openings in the Mountains, which are commonly called Passes; the most considerable of which, in the Neighbour­ hood of Clausenburg, is called the Pass of the Red Tower , and thro’ others not far from which are common Roads from Transilvania into and Walachia .