A Letter to the Kensington Canal Company on the Substitution of the Pneumatic Railway for the Common Railway by Which They Contemplate Extending Their Line of Conveyance

Note 46 — A LETTER, &c. (continued 2)

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“Steam-Engines.—It has been ascertained that there are now in Great Britain not less than 15,000 steam-engines at work; some of almost incredible power. In Cornwall there is one of one thousand horses power.”—New Monthly Magazine, for July, 1831.

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