 It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world that the ridiculous expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculist will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, or twenty miles...  The Life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer - Стр. 221авторы: Samuel Smiles - 1858 - Страниц: 557Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Thomas Allan Croal - 1877 - Страниц: 652
...world that the ridiculout expectations, or rather the professions, of the enthusiastic speculatists will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eightteen, or twenty miles an hour. Nothing could do more harm towards their adoption or general improvement... | |
 | Luke Herbert - 1880 - Страниц: 372
...the ridiculous expectations, or rather professions of the enthusiastic speculatist will be realized, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, or treenty miles an hour. Nothing could do more harm towards their adoption or general improvement than... | |
 | Franc Bangs Wilkie - 1883 - Страниц: 700
...professions, of the enthusiastic speculator will be realized, and that we shall see engines traveling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, or twenty miles an hour. Nothing could do more harm toward their general adoption and improvement, than the promulgation of such nonsense." t The Quarterly... | |
 | Frederick Smeeton Williams - 1883 - Страниц: 548
...the ridiculous expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculatist will be realized, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, and twenty miles an hour. Nothing can do more harm towards their general adoption and improvement than... | |
 | Frederick Smeeton Williams - 1884 - Страниц: 548
...engineer deprecated " the ridiculous expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculator that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of...improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense." " I hate these infernal railways," said the energetic Colonel Sibthorpe, " as I hate the devil." Nor... | |
 | William Conant Church - 1890 - Страниц: 336
...that the individual expectation, or rather profession of the enthusiastic specialist will be realized and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate...or twenty miles an hour. Nothing could do more harm toward their adoption or general improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense." What was to be... | |
 | William Conant Church - 1890 - Страниц: 704
...expectation, or rather profession of the enthusiastic specialist will be realized and that we shall sec engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen,...or twenty miles an hour. Nothing could do more harm toward their adoption or general improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense." What was to be... | |
 | Beckles Willson - 1903 - Страниц: 214
...expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculator that we shall see engines traveling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen or twenty miles an hour. Nothing could do more harm toward their general adoption and improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense." The notion that... | |
 | 1909 - Страниц: 808
...or rather professions, of the enthusiastic specialist will be realised, and that we ehall see them travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen...an hour. Nothing could do more harm towards their adoption or general improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense.' " What would Mr. Nicholas... | |
 | W. J. Wiltshire - 1913 - Страниц: 242
...openly deprecated " the ridiculous expectations or rather professions of the enthusiastic speculator that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of...improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense." The notion that one hundred miles an hour would one day be achieved would probably have driven this... | |
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