Our Iron Roads: Their History, Construction and Administration

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Bemrose & Sons, 1884 - Всего страниц: 520

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Стр. 20 - We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.
Стр. 508 - ... in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost previously required ; passengers who would require 70,000 coaches to hold them, and 700,000 horses to draw them.
Стр. 194 - There is a glorious city in the sea; The sea is in the broad, the narrow streets, Ebbing and flowing; and the salt sea-weed Clings to the marble of her palaces. No track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates! The path lies o'er the sea, Invisible: and from the land we went, As to a floating city — steering in, And gliding up her streets, as in...
Стр. 20 - It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world that the ridiculous expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculist will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, or twenty miles an hour. Nothing could do more harm towards their general adoption and improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense.
Стр. 24 - ... saw the rocks excavated, and the gigantic power of man penetrating through miles of the solid mass, and gaining a great, a lasting, an almost perennial conquest over the powers of nature by his skill and...
Стр. 28 - That engine was made thirty-two years ago, and we called it ' My Lord.' I said to my friends that there was no limit to the speed of such an engine, provided the works could be made to stand.
Стр. 261 - First the shrill whistle, then the distant roar. The ascending cloud of steam, the gleaming brass, The mighty moving arm; and on amain The mass comes thundering like an avalanche o"er The quaking earth; a thousand faces pass— A moment, and are gone like whirlwind sprites, Scarce seen; so much the roaring speed benights All sense and recognition for awhile ; A little space, a minute, and a mile.
Стр. 4 - The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber, from the colliery, down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants.
Стр. 29 - But I put up with every rebuff, and went on with my plans, determined not to be put down. Assistance gradually increased — improvements were made every day— and to-day a train, which started from London in the morning, has brought me in the afternoon to my native soil, and enabled me to take my place in this room, and see around me many faces which I have great pleasure in looking upon.
Стр. 511 - Lay down your rails, ye nations, near and far — Yoke your full trains to Steam's triumphal car ; Link town to town ; unite in iron bands The long-estranged and oft-embattled lands.

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