Talk:John Herapath

The Railway Magazine
"... The Railway Magazine ... not to be confused with The Railway Magazine" - so how would we avoid doing that!?!! Cutler 08:12, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

I acknowledge that I too was confused how someone who died in 1868 could be the editor of a magazine that did not begin until 1897. I had at first assumed that John Herapath had started Herapath's Railway Journal in 1835 but when I checked the Railway Gazette International web site it became clear that Herapath had started a magazine called The Railway Magazine which "underwent four changes of name during the boom years of railways to become Herapath's Railway Journal in January 1894.". Copyright law was virtually unenforceable for much of the 19th century and so I suspect the owners of Herapath's Railway Journal were unable to prevent Herapath's original title being used by a competitor. Kostal in his book Law and English Railway Capitalism (1997ed) ISBN 0198265670 writes on p37 "Before 1845 there were four weekly railway newspapers in England. By September 1845, in London alone at least a dozen additional railway journals had swelled the total...". He has a useful list in his bibliography of a least 28 different railway periodicals between 1825 and 1875. I am currently doing some research on Henry Mayhew's daily railway newspaper called the Iron Times. DonBarton 10:05, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Did Herapath really publish "a calculation of the mean molecular speed in a gas" in a railway magazine? Biscuittin (talk) 00:04, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Some Spanish seems to have crept into the first paragraph: unsigned comment added by Doug1943 (talk • contribs)