Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts, 1858, Vol. 36

Download or read book Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts, 1858, Vol. 36 written by John F. Frazer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts, 1858, Vol. 36: Devoted to Mechanical and Physical Science, Civil Engineering, the Arts and Manufactures, and the Recording of American and Other Patent Inventions; Whole No. Vol. LXVI Some points in this official document are well worthy of the notice of the engineering readers of our Journal. This great work (now nearly completed) will stretch in a continu ous line and with unbroken gauge, (5% feet, ) from Port Sarnia, at the outlet of Lake Huron, to the Harbor of Portland, in the State of Maine, forming with its Quebec branch, a connected railway of 1112 miles in length, all under an undivided management, and worked by a single corporation, with an investment already exceeding fifty millions of dollars. We now invite attention to a few interesting items of detail. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.