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Identifier: scientific-american-1896-11-21 (find matches)
Title: Scientific American Volume 75 Number 21 (November 1896)
Year: 1896 (1890s)
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Subjects: scientific tbe american patent tion wild valve dogs scientific american munn cast iron building edition candle power coast defense rapid transit corn pith hunting dogs rapid fire american supplement
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THE OLDS HORSELESS CARRIAGE. England owing to antiquated laws, but thanks to sen-sible legislation, the industry will probably now developrapidly. England, with its superb roads, is a splendidfield for the utilization of the horseless carriage. Slams Hew Railway. With the exception of the short narrow gage line toPaknam, the railway now under construction fromBangkok to Khorat is the only railway in Siam. It isto be the first of a vast ramification of lines designed todistribute civilization to the most distant portions ofthe kingdom. That the construction of the railway toKhorat should be persisted in is a matter of the high-
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est importance to Siam. No hopes are held that therailway will pay as a commercial speculation, buthopes are entertained that, in the awakening of Siam,that fatal unsteadiness of purpose which has character-ized her actions in the past may give way under better guidance to some conti-nuity of action, and therailway, having been be-gun, may be finished.There is no physical rea-son why the railwayshould not be completed,and when the first enginesteams into Khorat Siamwill have made her besteffort so far to escape fromthe state of semibarbar-ism in which she is en-thralled. The railway is 163 milesin length, and, as is wellknown, it is being built byMr. Murray Campbell, oneof the distinguished pio-neer railway contractorsof Asia, and financedby Messrs. Matheson &Company, of LombardStreet. It is designed topierce the center of avast plain of magnificentsoil reaching right away tothe Mekong, and capable,if properly developed, oinearly doubling the pres-ent revenues of Siam.The railway

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