Lives of the Engineers, with an Account of Their Principal Works: Comprising Also a History of Inland Communication in Britain, Том 3J. Murray, 1862 |
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... increased — Failure of contractors - - Magnitude of the works The railway navvies 301-324 - - CHAPTER XVI . - - ― - -- Projection of new lines - Dutton Viaduct on the Grand Junction The Man- chester and Leeds - Incident in Committee ...
... increased — Failure of contractors - - Magnitude of the works The railway navvies 301-324 - - CHAPTER XVI . - - ― - -- Projection of new lines - Dutton Viaduct on the Grand Junction The Man- chester and Leeds - Incident in Committee ...
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... increasing demand for fuel , attention was turned to the rich stores of coal lying underground in the neighbourhood of Newcastle and Durham . It then became an article of increasing export , and " seacoal " fires gradually supplanted ...
... increasing demand for fuel , attention was turned to the rich stores of coal lying underground in the neighbourhood of Newcastle and Durham . It then became an article of increasing export , and " seacoal " fires gradually supplanted ...
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... increasing from year to year , until at length the coal raised from these northern mines amounts to the extraordinary quantity of upwards of sixteen millions of tons a year , of which not less than nine millions of tons are annually ...
... increasing from year to year , until at length the coal raised from these northern mines amounts to the extraordinary quantity of upwards of sixteen millions of tons a year , of which not less than nine millions of tons are annually ...
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... increased to 130s . , and barley and oats in propor- tion . There was a great dearth of provisions , corn riots were of frequent occurrence , and the taxes on all articles of consumption were very heavy . The war with Napoleon was then ...
... increased to 130s . , and barley and oats in propor- tion . There was a great dearth of provisions , corn riots were of frequent occurrence , and the taxes on all articles of consumption were very heavy . The war with Napoleon was then ...
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... increasing mental strength , capability , and skill . Perhaps the secret of every man's best success in life is to be found in the alacrity and industry with which he takes advantage of the opportunities which present themselves for ...
... increasing mental strength , capability , and skill . Perhaps the secret of every man's best success in life is to be found in the alacrity and industry with which he takes advantage of the opportunities which present themselves for ...
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Стр. 209 - 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, in a person called upon to speak on a scientific subject, to propose such a plan. . . . Every part of the scheme shows that this man has applied himself to a subject of which he has no knowledge, and to which he has no science to apply.
Стр. 152 - 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. 116 - Pit on the 4th of November, and was found to burn better than the first lamp, and to be perfectly safe. But, as it did not yet come up entirely to the inventor's expectations, he proceeded to contrive a third lamp, in which he proposed to surround the oil vessel with a number of capillary tubes. Then it struck him that if he cut off the middle of the tubes, or made holes in metal plates, placed at a distance from each other equal to the length of the tubes, the air would get in better, and the effect...
Стр. 200 - What can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fa-st as stage - coaches ! We would 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. 167 - The time is coming when it will be cheaper for a working man to travel on a railway than to walk on foot.
Стр. 167 - I may not live so long, when railways will come to supersede almost all other methods of conveyance in this country — when mail-coaches will go by railway, and railroads will become the great highway for the king and all his subjects. The time is coming when it will be cheaper for a working man to travel...
Стр. 99 - The mode of communicating the motive power to the wheels by means of the spur gear also caused frequent jerks, each cylinder alternately propelling or becoming propelled by the other, as the pressure of the one upon the wheels became greater or less than the pressure of the other ; and, when the teeth of the cogwheel became at all worn, a rattling noise was produced during the travelling of the engine.
Стр. 203 - 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. I was not long in it...
Стр. 161 - I know all about it," said he; " and you will wonder how I learnt it. I will tell you. When I was a brakesman at Killingworth, I learnt the art of embroidery while working the pitmen's buttonholes by the engine fire at night.
Стр. 167 - I have said will come to pass as sure as you live. I only wish I may live to see the day, though that I can scarcely hope for, as I know how slow all human progress is, and with what difficulty I have been able to get the locomotive thus far adopted, notwithstanding my more than ten years' successful experiment at Killingworth.