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THE sub-title of this publication sufficiently expresses the character of the contents; it is “a guide to the literature relating to traction engines and steam rollers and to the propulsion of common road carriages and velocipedes by steam and other mechanical power, with a brief historical sketch.” The historical sketch is a concise statement of the lines along which progress in power locomotion on common roads has proceeded. Following it is a bibliography of works on mechanical carriages and traction engines, a catalogue of papers read before, or appearing in the Transactions of, scientific and technical societies, indexed under names of authors, a list of journals devoted to the mechanical carriage movement, and an index to articles on the subject in periodical literature up to the end of 1895. The periodicals indexed include those of the United States, France, and Germany, as well as of Great Britain. The author has evidently been at considerable pains to prepare his descriptive index, and his efforts deserve encouragement. It would be an immense boon if indexes of the same description were available for other branches of technology. The reception afforded to this little book will show whether the demand is sufficient to justify the publication of others of a like kind.
Power Locomotion on the Highway.
By Rhys Jenkins Pp. 64. (London: William Cate, Ltd., 1896.)
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Power Locomotion on the Highway. Nature 54, 365 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054365a0
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