The Stephenson Centenary: Containing the Proceedings of the Day, the Processions and Decorations, with the Speeches Delivered Upon the Occasion ; Illustrated with ViewsE.W. Allen, 1881 - Всего страниц: 118 |
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9th of June Applause Armstrong Band Belgian blue boiler Brass Bridge celebration Chairman coal Colliery Collingwood Street Committee connexion Councillor Cowen crimson cylinders Darlington decorated diam display district drapery driver for Messrs Durham Eastern Railway engine on six exhibition fireman flags Gateshead genius gentlemen George Stephenson Grainger Street Grey Street handsome Harrison Haswell hear Hebburn Henry Henry Tennant honour inscription Isaac Lowthian Bell James Jarrow John Joseph Cowen Killingworth labours length of stroke locomotive locomotive engine Lord Edward Cavendish Loud cheers Marshals Mayor memory of George miners Moor Newcastle Newcastle-upon-Tyne North North-Eastern Railway Northumberland Northumberland Street occasion passenger engine present prize proceedings procession Processionists Railway Company railway system Robert Stephenson Rocket Secretary silk banner Society South Shields Station steam Stephenson Centenary Street division success Sunderland thanks Thomas to-day toast Town Clerk Town Moor trade wheels coupled whole WORKMEN Wylam
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Стр. x - Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour, 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. xi - ... of working heavy loads along the railway with speed, regularity and safety. At length, influenced by his persistent earnestness not less than by his arguments, the directors, at the suggestion of Mr. Harrison, determined to offer a prize of £500 for the best locomotive engine, which, on a certain day, should be produced on the railway, and perform certain specified conditions in the most satisfactory manner. The conditions were these : — 1. The engine must effectually consume its own smoke....
Стр. 99 - For we throw out acclamations of self-thanking, selfadmiring, With, at every mile run faster, — 'O the wondrous, wondrous age!' Little thinking if we work our SOULS as nobly as our iron, Or if angels will commend us at the goal of pilgrimage.
Стр. 94 - London, which speaks of civil engineering as the "art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.
Стр. 75 - The Health of the Prince of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family...
Стр. x - And in order to carry the system recommended by them into effect, they proposed to divide the railroad between Liverpool and Manchester into nineteen stages of about a mile and a half each, with twenty-one engines fixed at the different points to work the trains forward.
Стр. x - Croft, and Yarm, is, under existing circumstances, preferable to a canal ; that such a communication would be highly advantageous to the interests of the south and east parts of the county of Durham, and of Cleveland and other parts of the North Riding of Yorkshire, as well as profitable...
Стр. 30 - The procession took an hour and a half to pass a given point. The most perfect order prevailed, the crowd keeping a clear space.
Стр. 99 - SOULS as nobly as our iron, Or if angels will commend us at the goal of pilgrimage. " Why, what is this patient entrance into nature's deep resources, But the child's most gradual learning to walk upright without bane? When we drive...
Стр. xi - His steadiness, perseverance, and skill had been acknowledged and rewarded. He and his son further perfected the locomotive, which he lived to see running at upwards of forty miles an hour. In 1837, he removed to Tapton Hall, a residence near Chesterfield, and in 1840, he intimated his design of retiring from his more active professional pursuits. He, however, did not subside into idleness or indifference ; but gave time to various railway matters, and took pleasure in attending Eublic meetings of...