The Life of George Stephenson, Railway EngineerJ. Murray, 1857 - Всего страниц: 517 |
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... hour when most other children of his age were fast asleep in their beds . He was also employed to hoe turnips , and ... miles across the fields from Dewley Burn , the boy walked that distance early in the morning to his work , returning ...
... hour when most other children of his age were fast asleep in their beds . He was also employed to hoe turnips , and ... miles across the fields from Dewley Burn , the boy walked that distance early in the morning to his work , returning ...
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... miles an hour . " The plan , however , was a very crude one , and not even a model of the machine seems to have been made . - Towards the end of the last century , the adoption of rail and tram - roads , worked by horses , had become ...
... miles an hour . " The plan , however , was a very crude one , and not even a model of the machine seems to have been made . - Towards the end of the last century , the adoption of rail and tram - roads , worked by horses , had become ...
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... miles an hour , and post - chaises and gentlemen's travelling carriages at eight , --both with one horse ; and small stationary steam - engines , placed from distance to distance , might be made , by means of circulating chains , to ...
... miles an hour , and post - chaises and gentlemen's travelling carriages at eight , --both with one horse ; and small stationary steam - engines , placed from distance to distance , might be made , by means of circulating chains , to ...
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... miles an hour . The boiler of this engine was cylindrical , flat at the ends , and constructed of cast - iron . The furnace and flue were inside the boiler , within which the single cylinder , of eight inches in diameter , and four feet ...
... miles an hour . The boiler of this engine was cylindrical , flat at the ends , and constructed of cast - iron . The furnace and flue were inside the boiler , within which the single cylinder , of eight inches in diameter , and four feet ...
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... miles and a quarter per hour . These engines continued for many years to be thus employed in the haulage of coal , and furnished the first instance of the regular em- ployment of locomotive power for commercial purposes . The Messrs ...
... miles and a quarter per hour . These engines continued for many years to be thus employed in the haulage of coal , and furnished the first instance of the regular em- ployment of locomotive power for commercial purposes . The Messrs ...
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Стр. 537 - 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. 360 - They also came to be regarded as inviting objects of investment to the thrifty, and a safe outlet for the accumulations of inert men of capital. Thus new avenues of iron road were soon in course of...
Стр. 157 - A reward of a single thousand would have supplied coaches and other vehicles, of various degrees of speed, with the best tackle for readily turning out ; and we might, ere this, have witnessed our mail coaches running at the rate of ten miles an hour drawn by a single horse, or impelled fifteen miles an hour by Blenkinsop's steam-engine. Such would have been a legitimate motive for overstepping the income of a nation ; and the completion of so great and .useful a work would have afforded rational...
Стр. 197 - 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 introduced thus far, notwithstanding my more than ten years' successful experiment at Killingworth.
Стр. 232 - Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of nine or ten miles .in hour, CHAP. XI. THE CROSS-EXAMINATION. 207 and that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine ; would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance ? "
Стр. 292 - ... 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 ; and George Stephenson rejoiced to think that in spite of all false prophets and fickle counsellors, his locomotive system was now safe. When the
Стр. 165 - 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. 157 - Malta, four or five of which might have been the means of extending double lines of iron railway from London to Edinburgh, Glasgow, Holyhead, Milford, Falmouth, Yarmouth, Dover, and Portsmouth ! A reward of a single thousand would have supplied coaches and other vehicles, of various degrees of speed, with the best tackle for readily turning out ; and we might, ere this, have witnessed our...
Стр. 473 - Robert Peel was made acquainted with the plot, and adroitly introduced the subject of the controversy after dinner. The result was, that, in the argument which followed, the man of science was overcome by the man of law, and Sir William Follett had at all points the mastery over Dr. Buckland. ' What do you say, Mr. Stephenson ? ' asked Sir Robert, laughing. —
Стр. 222 - The gross exaggerations of the powers of the locomotive steam-engine (or, to speak in plain English, the steam-carriage), may delude for a time, but must end in the mortification of those concerned.