Calculations and Remarks, Tending to Prove the Practicability, Effects and Advantages of a Plan for the Rapid Conveyance of Goods and Passengers: Upon an Iron Road Through a Tube of 30 Feet in Area, by the Power and Velocity of AirD.N. Shury, 1812 - 18 Seiten |
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Seite 13 - ... of a plan, for the rapid conveyance of goods and passengers on an iron road, through a tube of 30 feet in area, by the power and velocity of air.' The calculations in this work are principally confined to the conveyance of carriages inside a tube ; but it also states that it may be practicable, on the same principle, to form a tube, so as to leave a constant communication between the inside and the outside of it, and by this means to impel carriages in the open air, with the advantage to passengers...
Seite 13 - It is practicable, upon the same principle, to form a tube so as to leave a continual communication between the inside and the outside of it, without suffering any part of the impelling air to escape ; and by this means to impel a carriage along upon an iron road, in the open air, with equal velocity, and in a great degree possessing the same advantages as in passing withinside of the tube, with the additional satisfaction to passengers of being unconfined, and in view of the country...
Seite 17 - Passengers may be conveyed to the greatest distance through the country with ease and great safety, at the rate of a mile in a minute, or fifty miles per hour upon an average, and at the expense of ene
Seite 7 - ... securely laid all along the bottom, for the wheels of the carriage to run upon ; and the carriage must be nearly of the size and form of the canal, so as to prevent any considerable quantity of air from passing by it.
Seite 6 - In order to apply this principle to the purpose of conveying goods and passengers from place to place, a hollow tube or archway must be constructed the whole distance, of iron, brick, timber, or any material that will confine the air, and of such dimensions as to admit a four-wheeled carriage to run through it, capable of carrying passengers, and of strength and capacity for large and heavy goods. The tube or aerial canal must be made air-tight, and of the same form and dimensions throughout, having...
Seite 17 - ... greatest distance through the country with .ease and great safety at the rate of a mile in a minute, or fifty miles per hour upon an average, and at the expense of one farthing per mile. Second. All kind of portable goods, merchandize, manufacture, and produce, will be conveyed with the same velocity, at the expense of one penny per ton per mile conveyance.
Seite 10 - ... distance will be one hour. In many cases it will be practicable, upon the same principle, to form a tube so as to leave a continual communication between the inside and the outside of it, without suffering any part of the impelling air to escape, and by this means...
Seite 16 - The carriage ef 700 ton of goods and passengers per day, each way, with a profit to the proprietor of two-pence per ton per mile, will amount to 4,256/. per annum per mile — The principal advantagei attending this nude of conveyance will te,—
Seite 18 - Artillery, troops, baggage, and stores, may be conveyed with the same rapidity, safety, certainty and expense : and live cattle will be enabled to pass through the country without labour, and at a very small expense for carriage or for food. " Fish may be brought from the coast in a perfect state, and all perishable goods will be brought to market from their native soil, and in their native purity, " And the mails may be conveyed at a very small expense ; for the weight of 200,000 letters will not...
Seite 16 - ... impel them the other. The expense with which a double tube for internal conveyance, of these dimensions, would be constructed with English timber, together with the iron roads within them, and all costs attending it, would amount to 7,0001.