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Steam was directed to the roads before it was applied to railways . James Watt took out a patent for using steam in a wheel - carriage in 1784 and Trevithick's steam carriage was on the roads in 1804. Before the Liverpool and Manchester ...
Steam was directed to the roads before it was applied to railways . James Watt took out a patent for using steam in a wheel - carriage in 1784 and Trevithick's steam carriage was on the roads in 1804. Before the Liverpool and Manchester ...
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Although Telford was critical of the claims then being made for steam as an agent of propulsion , he was himself , and always had been , deeply interested in the possibilities of steam . ' We are a dull plodding people , ' he wrote in ...
Although Telford was critical of the claims then being made for steam as an agent of propulsion , he was himself , and always had been , deeply interested in the possibilities of steam . ' We are a dull plodding people , ' he wrote in ...
Page 274
Steam was directed to the roads before it was applied to railways . James Watt took out a patent for using steam in a wheel - carriage in 1784 and Trevithick's steam carriage was on the roads in 1804. Before the Liverpool and Manchester ...
Steam was directed to the roads before it was applied to railways . James Watt took out a patent for using steam in a wheel - carriage in 1784 and Trevithick's steam carriage was on the roads in 1804. Before the Liverpool and Manchester ...
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