LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES ON RAILWAYS.
High-pressure Engines. -- Leupold's Engine. -- Trevithick and
Vivian. -- Effects of Improvement in Locomotion. -- Historical
Account of the Locomotive Engine. -- Blenkinsop's Patent. --
Chapman's Improvement. -- Walking Engine. -- Stephenson's First
Engines. -- His Improvements. -- Liverpool and Manchester Railway
Company. -- Their Preliminary Proceedings. -- The Great
Competition of 1829. -- The Rocket. -- The Sanspareil. -- The
Novelty. -- Qualities of the Rocket. -- Successive Improvements.
-- Experiments. -- Defects of the Present Engines. -- Inclined
Planes. -- Methods of surmounting them. -- Circumstances of the
Manchester Railway Company. -- Probable Improvements in
Locomotives. -- Their capabilities with respect to speed. --
Probable Effects of the Projected Railroads. -- Steam Power
compared with Horse Power. -- Railroads compared with Canals. 145