Chapter III: Part I: Chapter I

SCHEMERS AND PROJECTORS.

Man's Desire for rapid Transit.--Origin of the Railway.--Early Coal
Wagon-ways in the North of England.--Early Attempts to apply the Power
of Wind to drive Carriages.--Sailing-coaches.--Sir Isaac Newton's
Proposal to employ Steam-power.--Dr. Darwin's Speculations on the
Subject.--Mr. Edgeworth's Speculations.--Dr. Darwin's Prophecy. Pg 47

CHAPTER II.

EARLY LOCOMOTIVE MODELS.

Watt and Robison's proposed Steam-carriage.--Memoir of Joseph Cugnot
and his Road-locomotive.--Francis Moore.--James Watt's Specification
of a Locomotive-engine.--William Murdoch's Model.--William Symington's
model Steam-carriage.--Oliver Evans's model Locomotive. 60

CHAPTER III.

THE CORNISH LOCOMOTIVE--MEMOIR OF TREVITHICK.

Early Welsh Railway Acts.--Wandsworth, Croydon, and Merstham
Railway.--Boyhood of Trevithick.--Becomes an Engineer.--His
Career.--Constructs a Steam-carriage.--Its Exhibition in
London.--Constructs a Tram-engine.--Its Trial on the Merthyr
Railroad.--Trevithick's Improvements in the Steam-engine.--Attempts
to construct a Tunnel under the Thames.--His numerous Inventions
and Patents.--Engines ordered of him for Peru.--Trevithick a Mining
Engineer in South America.--Is ruined by the Peruvian Revolution.--His
return Home.--His last Patents.--Death and Characteristics. 73