...Committee to believe that this substitution of inanimate for animal power, in draught on common roads, is one of the most important improvements in the means...general introduction of steam as a substitute for horse-power on roads. One very formidable obstacle will arise from those prejudices which always beset...

...declare their belief, that 'The substitution of inanimate for animal power, in draught on common roads, is one of the most important improvements in the means...drawn by public encouragement to further improvement.' — Report, p. 4. Most sincerely do we wish that the anticipation may be realized ; but when we meditate...

...Committee to believe that this substitution of inanimate for animal power, in draught on common roads, is one of the most important improvements in the means...consider to have been fully established; its general adop. tinn will take place, more or less rapidly, in proportion as the attention of scientific men...

...that the substitution of inanimate for animal power in draught on common roads, is one of the roost important improvements in the means of internal communication...practicability they consider to have been fully established Many circumstances, however, must retard the general introduction of them as a substitute for horse-power...

...of inanimate for animal power in draught on common roads, is one of the moit important impruvementi in the means of internal communication ever introduced....practicability they consider to have been fully established Many circumstances, however, must retard the general introduction of them as a substitute for horse-power...

...Committee of the House of Commons are of opinion, that " the substitution of inanimate for animal power is one of the most important improvements in the means of internal communication ever introduced." The moral, political, and commercial results are fully and ably detailed by Mr. Gordon, in his work...

...them to the belief that the substitution of inanimate for animate power in draught upon common roads is one of the most important improvements in the means of internal communication ever introduced, and that they considered its practicability to be fully established. That its general adoption would...

...thorough investigation of the subject, viz. " That the substitution of inanimate for animate power is one of the most important improvements in the means of internal communication ever introduced' ' - , upon the subject of steam-carriages, before the Select Committee of the House of Commons, during...

...Committee of Parliament have since declared that " the substitution of Inanimate for animate power is one of the most important improvements in the means of internal communication ever introduced, and its practicability they consider to be fully established." It appears that Mr. Hancock's Stratford...

...roads in Great Britain, one million of horses, and a horse, it is calculated, draught on common roads, is one of the most important improvements in the means of internal communication consumes the food of eight men. If Steam Carriages could ultimately be brought to such perfection as...