Do Railway Trains Affect the Climate?
Anon
Genre: | Abstract |
Publications abstracted: | Belford's Magazine |
Subjects: | Climatology, Railways |
Suggests that the 'perpetual rushing of a million' railway carriages in 'all directions through a mobile and elastic atmosphere [...] may generate cyclones and lead to unusual snowstorms'. | |
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