Narrative of Twelve Years Experiments, (1824-1836) Demonstrative of the Practicability and Advantage of Employing Steam-Carriages on Common Roads - With Engravings and Descriptions of the Different Steam-Carriages Constructed by the Au... #271223

N ow that the public seem to have at last reached the point of taking up in good earnest this improvement in the means of internal communication — the most im-s portant in the opinion of the Select Parliamentary Committee of 1881, that was ever introduced* — it is but natural that those who have been the active instruments of its development, should be anxious to vindicate, each for himself, the share of praise which is his due. Neither.