Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

Opening of Manchester and Liverpool Railway -- Death of Mr. Huskisson -- Plate-glass Manufactory -- Mode of separating Engine from Train -- Broad-gauge Question -- Experimental Carriage -- Measure the Force of Traction, the Vertical, Lateral, and End Shake of Carriage, also its Velocity by Chronometer -- Fortunate Escape from meeting on the same Line Brunel on another Engine -- Sailed across the Hanwell Viaduct in a Wagon without Steam -- Meeting of British Association at Newcastle -- George Stephenson -- Dr. Lardner -- Suggestions for greater Safety on Railroads -- George Stephenson's Opinion of the Gauges -- Railways at National Exhibitions.

At the commencement of the railway system I naturally took a great interest in the subject, from its bearings upon mechanism as well as upon political economy.