The Life of George Stephenson and of His Son Robert Stephenson: Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive |
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... interest , and he has taken pains , in preparing for the press the present , and probably final edition , to render it , by care- ful amendment and revision , more worthy of the public accept- ance . London , May , 1868 . PREFACE TO THE ...
... interest , and he has taken pains , in preparing for the press the present , and probably final edition , to render it , by care- ful amendment and revision , more worthy of the public accept- ance . London , May , 1868 . PREFACE TO THE ...
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... interest in the improvement of the " Life " of his father , and continued to furnish corrections and additions for insertion in the successive editions of the book which were called for by the public . After the first two editions had ...
... interest in the improvement of the " Life " of his father , and continued to furnish corrections and additions for insertion in the successive editions of the book which were called for by the public . After the first two editions had ...
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... interest , and ad- mitted to be of a very remarkable character ; and , considering that it was a first attempt , it was not by any means regarded as unsuccessful . As it was believed that such a machine , if prop- erly proportioned ...
... interest , and ad- mitted to be of a very remarkable character ; and , considering that it was a first attempt , it was not by any means regarded as unsuccessful . As it was believed that such a machine , if prop- erly proportioned ...
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... interest . Unhappily , however , an accident which occurred to it in one of the trials had the effect of putting a stop to farther experiments . Turning the corner of a street near the Madeleine one day , when CHAP . II . ] CUGNOT'S ...
... interest . Unhappily , however , an accident which occurred to it in one of the trials had the effect of putting a stop to farther experiments . Turning the corner of a street near the Madeleine one day , when CHAP . II . ] CUGNOT'S ...
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... interests ; but for this very reason he became pro- portionately obnoxious to the Royalists , who , looking upon him as the agent through whom the patriotic party obtained the sinews of war , destroyed his engines , and broke up his ...
... interests ; but for this very reason he became pro- portionately obnoxious to the Royalists , who , looking upon him as the agent through whom the patriotic party obtained the sinews of war , destroyed his engines , and broke up his ...
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Page 263 - What can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fa-st as stage - coaches ! We would 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.
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Page iv - England has erected no churches, no hospitals, no palaces, no schools ; England has built no bridges, made no high roads, cut no navigations, dug out no reservoirs. Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain to tell that it had been possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ourang-outang or the tiger.
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Page 392 - The strength of Britain," he would say, " lies in her iron and coal beds; and the locomotive is destined, above all other agencies, to bring it forth. The Lord Chancellor now sits upon a bag of wool ; but wool has long ceased to be emblematical of the staple commodity of England. He ought rather to sit upon a bag of coals, though it might not prove quite so comfortable a seat.
Page 179 - November, 1815, he read before the Royal Society of London his celebrated paper " On the Firedamp of Coal Mines, and on Methods of Lighting the Mine so as to prevent its Explosion.
Page 59 - Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or on wide waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air : — Fair crews triumphant, leaning from above, Shall wave their fluttering kerchiefs as they move, Or warrior bands alarm the gaping crowd, And armies shrink beneath the shadowy cloud.
Page 236 - ... for the king and all his subjects. The time, is coming when it will be cheaper for a working man to travel on a railway than to walk on foot. I know there are great and almost insurmountable difficulties to be encountered, but what I have said will come to pass as sure as you now hear me.
Page 67 - I wish William could be brought to do as we do, to mind the business in hand, and let such as Symington and Sadler throw away their time and money in hunting shadows.
Page 266 - ... 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. I was not long in it...