Author:Peter Lecount

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Peter Lecount
(1794–1852)

British Royal Navy officer and civil engineer

Works[edit]

  • A Description of the changeable magnetic properties possessed by all iron bodies, and the different effects produced by the same on the ship's compasses, from the position of the ship's head being altered. With engravings (1820)
  • An Examination of Professor Barlow's Reports on Iron Rails, Etc (1836)
  • The History of the Railway Connecting London and Birmingham‎ (1839), Simpkin, Marshall, and Company
  • The London and Birmingham railway, with the home and country scenes on each side of the line [with Thomas Roscoe ]
  • A Practical Treatise on Railways, explaining their construction and management (originally published as Railways in the seventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica)

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