The Mirror Of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction - Volume 14, No. 391, September 26, 1829

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mirror Of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction, No. 391, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Mirror Of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction, No. 391 Vol. 14, No. 391, Saturday, September 26, 1829 Author: Various Release Date: September 3, 2004 [EBook #13359] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, *** Produced by Jonathan Ingram, William Flis, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. [pg 193] THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. Vol. 14. No. 391.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1829. PRICE 2d. GURNEY'S IMPROVED STEAM CARRIAGE. [pg 194] MR. GURNEY'S IMPROVED STEAM CARRIAGE. Mr. Gurney, in perfecting this invention, has followed Dr. Franklin's advice—to tire and begin again. It is now four years since he first commenced his ingenious enterprise; and nearly two years since we reported and illustrated the progress he had made. (See MIRROR, vol. x. page 393, or No. 287.) He began with a large boiler, but public prejudice was too strong for it; and knowing people talked of high pressure accidents; the steam, could not, of course, be altogether got rid of, so to divide the danger, Mr.