 ... five miles beyond the rate specified in the conditions published by the Company. The entire performance excited the greatest astonishment amongst the assembled spectators ; the directors felt confident that their enterprise was now on the eve of success...  The Life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer - Стр. 299авторы: Samuel Smiles - 1858 - Страниц: 557Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | 1858 - Страниц: 746
...greatest astonishment amongst the assembled spectators. The Directors felt confident that their enterprise was now on the eve of success ; and George Stephenson...Now has George Stephenson at last delivered himself! ' " The Rocket embodied all the improvements which its constructor had been led to make, one by one,... | |
 | Charles C. B. Seymour - 1858 - Страниц: 1454
...greatest astonishment among the assembled spectators ; the directors felt confident that their enterprise was now on the eve of success, and George Stephenson...think that, in spite of all false prophets and fickle counselors, his locomotive system was safe. The other engines were tried, but were so much inferior... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1859 - Страниц: 384
...astonishment amongst the assembled spectators ; the directors felt confident that their enterprise was now on the eve of success ; and George Stephenson...counsellors, his locomotive system was now safe. When the " Eocket," 218 THE ROCKET. CHAP. XII. having performed all the conditions of the contest, arrived at... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1862 - Страниц: 552
...George Stephenson rejoiced to think that in spite of till false prophets and fickle counsellors, the locomotive system was now safe. When the " Rocket,"...all the conditions of the contest, arrived at the " grand stand " at the close of its day's successful run, Mr. Cropper — one of the directors favourable... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1862 - Страниц: 558
...astonishment amongst the assembled spectators ; the directors felt confident that their enterprise was now on the eve of success ; and George Stephenson rejoiced to think that in spite of 272 FAILURE OF THE OTHER ENGINES. CHAP. XIII. all false prophets and fickle counsellors, the locomotive... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1862 - Страниц: 792
...spectators ; the directors felt confident that their enterprise was now on the eve of success ; !ind George Stephenson rejoiced to think that in spite of all false prophets and fickle counsellors, the locomotive system was now safe. When the " Rocket," having performed all the conditions of the... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1865 - Страниц: 432
...greatest astonishment among the assembled spectators ; the directors felt confident that the enterprise was now on the eve of success ; and George Stephenson...all the conditions of the contest, arrived at the platform at the close of its day's successful run Mr. Isaac Cropper,one of the directors favourable... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1868 - Страниц: 522
...greatest astonishment among the assembled spectators ; the directors felt confident that their enterprise was now on the eve of success ; and George Stephenson...think that, in spite of all false prophets and fickle counselors, the locomotive system was now safe. When the " Rocket," having performed all the conditions... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1868 - Страниц: 530
...When the " Rocket," having performed all the conditions of the contest, arrived at the "grand stand" at the close of its day's successful run, Mr. Cropper— one of the directors favorable to the fixed engine system — lifted up his hands, and exclaimed, " Now has George Stephenson... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1874 - Страниц: 468
...astonishment amongst the assembled spectators ; the directors felt confident that their enterprise was now on the eve of success ; and George Stephenson rejoiced to think that in spite of all fake prophets and fickle counsellors, the locomotive system was now safe. V\ hen the " Eocket," having... | |
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