The life of George Stephenson, railway engineer1857 |
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... chester Railway.- Messrs . Walker and Rastrick's Report in favour of fixed Engines , and against the Locomotive . - Mr . Robert Stephenson and Mr. Locke's Reply . — The Directors offer a Prize of 500l . for the best Engine ...
... chester Railway.- Messrs . Walker and Rastrick's Report in favour of fixed Engines , and against the Locomotive . - Mr . Robert Stephenson and Mr. Locke's Reply . — The Directors offer a Prize of 500l . for the best Engine ...
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... Chester to Holy- head . - West Coast Line to Glasgow . — Leeds and Bradford . Rapidity of Railway Development . Is checked by the Monetary Pressure 358-368 - CHAP . XXVIII . - - - The Modern School of English Engineers.- Fast Men ...
... Chester to Holy- head . - West Coast Line to Glasgow . — Leeds and Bradford . Rapidity of Railway Development . Is checked by the Monetary Pressure 358-368 - CHAP . XXVIII . - - - The Modern School of English Engineers.- Fast Men ...
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... chester Railway in 1822 , I came to London in January , 1823 , to demonstrate the importance of the engine railway system , and to acquire and employ , amongst my friends in the higher circles of life , sufficient influence to meet the ...
... chester Railway in 1822 , I came to London in January , 1823 , to demonstrate the importance of the engine railway system , and to acquire and employ , amongst my friends in the higher circles of life , sufficient influence to meet the ...
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... chester Railway , -while admitting its absolute necessity , and insisting that there was no choice left but a railroad , on which the journey between Liverpool and Manchester , whether per- formed by horses or engines , would always be ...
... chester Railway , -while admitting its absolute necessity , and insisting that there was no choice left but a railroad , on which the journey between Liverpool and Manchester , whether per- formed by horses or engines , would always be ...
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... chester . It denounced the monopoly of the carriage of mer- chandise between the two towns , attempted to be upheld by the canal companies , -argued against their so - called " vested rights , " which , it averred , could not stand for ...
... chester . It denounced the monopoly of the carriage of mer- chandise between the two towns , attempted to be upheld by the canal companies , -argued against their so - called " vested rights , " which , it averred , could not stand for ...
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Стр. 224 - What can be more palpably absurd or ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage coaches ! "Wo 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. 234 - 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. 57 - The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery down to the river, exactly straight 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. 228 - 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. 466 - I suppose it is one of your big engines.' ' But what drives the engine ? ' ' Oh, very likely a canny Newcastle driver.
Стр. 218 - Travelling by rail would be highly dangerous, and country inns would be ruined, boilers would burst and blow passengers to atoms. But there was always this consolation to wind up with — that the weight of the locomotive would completely prevent its moving, and that railways, even if made, could never be worked by steam-power.
Стр. 276 - The company to be at liberty to test the boiler, etc., by a pressure of one hundred and fifty pounds to the square inch. 6. A mercurial gauge must be affixed to the machine, showing the steam pressure above forty-five pounds per square inch. 7. The engine must be delivered, complete and ready for trial, at the Liverpool end of the railway, not later than the 1st of October, 1829. 8. The price of the engine must not exceed £550.
Стр. 166 - 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. 72 - Trevethick's engine. The invention of the double cylinder was due to Matthew Murray, of Leeds, one of the best mechanical engineers of his time, Mr. Blenkinsop, who was not himself a mechanic, having consulted him as to all the practical arrangements of his locomotive. The connecting-rods gave the motion to two pinions by cranks at right angles to each other ; these pinions communicating the motion to the wheel which worked into the toothed-rail.
Стр. 503 - 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...