The life of George Stephenson, railway engineerJohn Murray, Albermarle Street, 1858 - Всего страниц: 486 |
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... Gauge of the Railway settled . The Tractive Power to be employed . Anticipations of Railway Results.- Public Opening of the Line . The " Experiment . " . Rival Coach Companies . - Race between Locomotive and Coach . Results of the ...
... Gauge of the Railway settled . The Tractive Power to be employed . Anticipations of Railway Results.- Public Opening of the Line . The " Experiment . " . Rival Coach Companies . - Race between Locomotive and Coach . Results of the ...
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... Gauge . - Increased Width on the Great Western . - Mr. Brunel . - Battle of the Gauges . - The Atmospheric Railway . — The Undulating System.Notions of Fast Travelling . - Mr. Stephenson invents a Railway Safety - brake . His moderate ...
... Gauge . - Increased Width on the Great Western . - Mr. Brunel . - Battle of the Gauges . - The Atmospheric Railway . — The Undulating System.Notions of Fast Travelling . - Mr. Stephenson invents a Railway Safety - brake . His moderate ...
Стр. 194
... gauge of the railway . 3. The employment of horse or engine power in working it when ready for traffic . The kind of rails to be laid down to form the permanent road , was a matter of considerable importance . A wooden tramroad had been ...
... gauge of the railway . 3. The employment of horse or engine power in working it when ready for traffic . The kind of rails to be laid down to form the permanent road , was a matter of considerable importance . A wooden tramroad had been ...
Стр. 195
... Gauge had also to be determined . What width was this to be ? The gauge of the first tramroad laid down , had virtually settled the point . The gauge of wheels of the common vehicles of the country -of the carts and waggons employed on ...
... Gauge had also to be determined . What width was this to be ? The gauge of the first tramroad laid down , had virtually settled the point . The gauge of wheels of the common vehicles of the country -of the carts and waggons employed on ...
Стр. 196
... gauge in view . The Wylam waggon - way , afterwards the Wylam plate - way , the Killingworth railroad , and the Hetton rail- road , were all laid down on this gauge . Some of the earth- waggons used to form the Stockton and Darlington ...
... gauge in view . The Wylam waggon - way , afterwards the Wylam plate - way , the Killingworth railroad , and the Hetton rail- road , were all laid down on this gauge . Some of the earth- waggons used to form the Stockton and Darlington ...
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Стр. 529 - 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. 59 - The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber, from the colliery, down to the river, exactly streight 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. 415 - It was not an easy task for me to keep the engine down to ten miles an hour, but it must be done, and I did my best.
Стр. 414 - 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. 214 - It is possible that roads paved with iron may hereafter be employed for the purpose of expeditious travelling, since there is scarcely any resistance to be overcome, except that of the air; and such roads will allow the velocity to be increased almost without limit.
Стр. 161 - It was set forth in the preamble that these different lines " will be of great public utility, by facilitating the conveyance of coal, iron, lime, corn, and other commodities, from the interior of the county of Durham...
Стр. 268 - The engine, with water, must not weigh more than six tons ; but an engine of less weight would be preferred on its drawing a proportionate load behind it ; if of only four and a half tons, then it might be put on only four wheels.
Стр. 528 - It is certainly some consolation to those who are to be whirled at the rate of eighteen or twenty miles an hour, by means of a high pressure engine, to be told that they are in no danger of being seasick while on shore ; that they are not to be scalded to death nor drowned by the bursting of the boiler; and that they need not mind being shot by the scattered fragments, or dashed...
Стр. 215 - 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. 112 - Air, when rendered impure by the combustion of a candle, but in which the candle will still burn, will not explode the gas from the mines ; and when a lamp or candle is made to burn in a close vessel having apertures only above and below, an explosive mixture of gas admitted merely enlarges the light, and then gradually extinguishes it without explosion. Again, — the gas mixed in any proportion with common air, I have discovered, will not explode in a small tube, the diameter of which is less than...