CONTENTS

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Introduction [9]
The Battle of the Iron Horse
The Railway Centenary [13]
The Protean Problem [17]
The X-Ray Transporter [20]
Erichthonius, Wheelwright [25]
The Philosopher’s Steam [29]
George Stephenson, Engine-wright [32]
The Nature of the Beast [40]
Protean Ignorance [44]
The Conquest of the Elysian Fields
The Equation of Power and Movement [48]
The Riddle of the Gordian Knot [52]
The Problem of Unemployment [59]
The Problem of Power [66]
Problems of Movement [69]
Two-Dimensional Movement [77]
The Elysian Fields [87]
The Wings of Pegasus [91]

PEGASUS

PROBLEMS OF TRANSPORTATION