Lives of the Engineers: The locomotive. George and Robert StephensonJ. Murray, 1874 |
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Стр. ii
... EMBANKMENTS AND CANALS - VERMUYDEN ; MYDDELTON ; PERRY ; BRINDLEY . II . HARBOURS , LIGHTHOUSES , AND BRIDGES SMEATON ; RENNIE . III . HISTORY OF ROADS ; METCALFE ; TELford . IV . THE STEAM - ENGINE ; BOULTON AND WATT . - V. THE ...
... EMBANKMENTS AND CANALS - VERMUYDEN ; MYDDELTON ; PERRY ; BRINDLEY . II . HARBOURS , LIGHTHOUSES , AND BRIDGES SMEATON ; RENNIE . III . HISTORY OF ROADS ; METCALFE ; TELford . IV . THE STEAM - ENGINE ; BOULTON AND WATT . - V. THE ...
Стр. xxxvi
... theory of a floating road - Operations begun - Tar - barrel drains- The embankment sinks in the Moss - Proposed abandonment of the work - Stephenson perseveres The obstacles conquered - ― Rond CONTENTS , - xxxvii across Parr Moss - The ...
... theory of a floating road - Operations begun - Tar - barrel drains- The embankment sinks in the Moss - Proposed abandonment of the work - Stephenson perseveres The obstacles conquered - ― Rond CONTENTS , - xxxvii across Parr Moss - The ...
Стр. 166
... embankment out of this pulpy , wet moss , is no very easy task . Who but Mr. Stephenson would have thought of entering into Chat Moss , carrying it out almost like wet dung ? It is ignorance almost inconceivable . It is perfect madness ...
... embankment out of this pulpy , wet moss , is no very easy task . Who but Mr. Stephenson would have thought of entering into Chat Moss , carrying it out almost like wet dung ? It is ignorance almost inconceivable . It is perfect madness ...
Стр. 168
... embankments , or cuttings , or inclined planes , or in what way the thing is to be carried into effect . Whenever a difficulty is pressed , as in the case of a tunnel , he gets out of it at one end , and when you try to catch him at ...
... embankments , or cuttings , or inclined planes , or in what way the thing is to be carried into effect . Whenever a difficulty is pressed , as in the case of a tunnel , he gets out of it at one end , and when you try to catch him at ...
Стр. 242
... embankments , and tunnels of the London and Bir- mingham Railway . It would be an uninteresting , as it would be a fruitless task , to attempt to describe the works in detail ; but a general outline of their extraordinary character and ...
... embankments , and tunnels of the London and Bir- mingham Railway . It would be an uninteresting , as it would be a fruitless task , to attempt to describe the works in detail ; but a general outline of their extraordinary character and ...
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Стр. iv - England has erected no churches, no hospitals, no palaces, no schools ; England has built no bridges, made no high roads, cut no navigations, dug out no reservoirs. Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain to tell that it had been possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by anything better than the ourang-outang or the tiger.
Стр. 161 - 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. I had to place myself in that most unpleasant of all positions — the witness-box of a parliamentary committee.
Стр. 136 - ... for the king and all his subjects. The time is coming when it will be cheaper for a working man to travel on a railway than to walk on foot. I know there are great and almost insurmountable difficulties...
Стр. 172 - What with those who may still wish to travel in their own or hired carriages, after the fashion of their forefathers ? What was to become of coachmakers and harness-makers, coachmasters and coachmen, inn-keepers, horse-breeders...
Стр. 224 - Flurried and confused, Mr. Huskisson endeavoured to get round the open door of the carriage, which projected over the opposite rail; but in so doing he was struck down by the "Rocket," and falling with his leg doubled across the rail, the limb was instantly crushed. His first words, on being raised, were, "I have met my death," which unhappily proved too true, for he expired that same evening in the neighbouring parsonage of Eccles.
Стр. 154 - Liverpool, setting forth that they considered "the present establishments for the transport of goods quite inadequate, and that a new line of conveyance has become absolutely necessary to conduct the increasing trade of the country with speed, certainty, and economy.
Стр. 159 - 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. 125 - Overton, who had had considerable experience in the formation of similar roads in Wales. The necessary preliminary steps were taken in the year 1818 to apply for an Act to authorise the construction of a tramroad from Witton to Stockton. The measure was, however, strongly opposed by the Duke of Cleveland, because the proposed line passed near to one of his fox covers ; and, having considerable parliamentary influence, he succeeded in throwing out the bill by a majority of only thirteen, — above...
Стр. 90 - One day in the year 1814, a workman hurried into Stephenson's cottage with the startling information that the deepest main of the colliery was on fire ! He immediately hastened to the pithead, about a hundred yards off, whither the women and children of the colliery were running, with wildness and terror depicted in every face. In a commanding voice, Stephenson ordered the engine-man to lower him down the shaft in the corve. There was danger, it might be death, before him, but he must go.