 | John Timbs - 1860 - Страниц: 432
...of such a machine going at such a rate. We will back old Father Thames against the Woolwich Railway for any sum. We trust that Parliament will, in all...Sylvester is as great as can be ventured on with safety. In 1819, Stephenson turned, for the owners of Hetton Colliery, their tram-road into a railway ; and... | |
 | Thomas Greenbury - 1860 - Страниц: 154
...of such a machine going at such a rate. We will back old Father Thames against the Woolwich Railway, for any sum. We trust that Parliament will, in all...Sylvester, is as great as can be ventured on with safety." Most of the practical and scientific men in the kingdom shared these opinions. One civil engineer designated... | |
 | John Francis Maguire - 1860 - Страниц: 502
...of such a machine going at such a rate. We will back old Father Thames against the Woolwich railway for any sum. We trust that Parliament will, in all railways it may sanction, litnit tlie speed to eic/Ji.t or nine miles an hour, which, we entirely agree with Mr. Sylvester, is... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1862 - Страниц: 558
...of such a machine going at such a rate. We will back old Father Thames against the Woolwich Railway for any sum. We trust that Parliament will, in all...Sylvester is as great as can be ventured on with safety." SMtVEYING ON THAT ilOSS CHAP. XI. THE PARLIAMENTARY CONTEST. 201 CHAPTER XI. PARLIAMENTARY CONTEST... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1862 - Страниц: 792
...of such a machine going at such a rate. We will back old Father Thames against the Woolwich Railway for any sum. We trust that Parliament will, in all...hour, which we entirely agree with Mr. Sylvester is as creat as can be ventured on with safety." SCRVEY1NO OJJ THAT MOSS CHAPTER XI. PARUAIfENTARY CONTEST... | |
 | Henry Alexander Glass - 1864 - Страниц: 134
...and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage-coaches ? We trust that Parliament will, in all railways it...Sylvester, is as great as can be ventured on with safety." On the 21st of March, 1825, the Liverpool and Manchester Bill went into Committee. A great array of... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1868 - Страниц: 524
...of such a machine going at such a rate. We will back old Father Thames against the Woolwich Railway for any sum. We trust that Parliament will, in all...Sylvester is as great as can be ventured on with safety." BDBYEYINO ON 43J1AT HOBS. CHAPTER X. PARLIAMENTARY CONTEST ON THE LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER BILL. THE... | |
 | 1889 - Страниц: 1088
...wild estimates as to speed. ' We will back,' it said, ' old Father Thames against the Woolwich Railway for any sum. We trust that Parliament will in all...limit the speed to eight or nine miles an hour, which is as great as can be ventured on with safety.' When the prophets have failed so egregiously in the... | |
 | Thomas Allan Croal - 1877 - Страниц: 652
...and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage coaches ? We trust that Parliament will, in all railways it...sanction, limit the speed to eight or nine miles an 492 493 hour, which, we quite agree with Mr. Sylvester, is as great as can lie ventured on with safety"... | |
 | Thomas Allan Croal - 1877 - Страниц: 642
...and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage coaches ? We trust that Parliament will, in all railways it may sanction, limit th« speed to eight or nine miles in hour, which, we quite agree with Mr. Sylvester, is as great as... | |
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We trust that Parliament will, in all railways it may sanction, limit the speed to eight or nine miles an hour, which we entirely agree with Mr. Sylvester is as great as can be ventured on with safety. 
