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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... give an additional number of 39,405,600 jour- neys , or a total of 313,699,268 passengers carried in Great Brit- ain in one year . per- It is difficult to grasp the idea of the enormous number of sons represented by these figures . The ...
... give an additional number of 39,405,600 jour- neys , or a total of 313,699,268 passengers carried in Great Brit- ain in one year . per- It is difficult to grasp the idea of the enormous number of sons represented by these figures . The ...
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... gives an account of its performances as fol- lows : " Purposing to visit Grotius , Peireskius went to Scheveling that he might satisfy himself of the carriage and swiftness of a coach a few years before invented , and made with that ...
... gives an account of its performances as fol- lows : " Purposing to visit Grotius , Peireskius went to Scheveling that he might satisfy himself of the carriage and swiftness of a coach a few years before invented , and made with that ...
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... give up his locomotive - engine scheme ; but , if he could not succeed in that , then , rather than lose Murdock's services , Watt proposed that he should be allowed an advance of £ 100 to enable him to prosecute his experiments , and ...
... give up his locomotive - engine scheme ; but , if he could not succeed in that , then , rather than lose Murdock's services , Watt proposed that he should be allowed an advance of £ 100 to enable him to prosecute his experiments , and ...
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... give scope for his inventive skill . In whatever work he was employed , he was sure to introduce new methods and arrangements , if not new inventions . He was full of speculative enthusiasm , a great theorist , and yet an indefatiga ...
... give scope for his inventive skill . In whatever work he was employed , he was sure to introduce new methods and arrangements , if not new inventions . He was full of speculative enthusiasm , a great theorist , and yet an indefatiga ...
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... give him an opportunity of testing the value of his last in- vention that of a vessel driven by the ejection of water through a tube — and he went there to superintend the construction of the necessary engine and apparatus . The vessel ...
... give him an opportunity of testing the value of his last in- vention that of a vessel driven by the ejection of water through a tube — and he went there to superintend the construction of the necessary engine and apparatus . The vessel ...
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Page 268 - 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 ? "
Page 261 - What can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast 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.
Page 271 - Locomotive engines are liable to be operated upon by the weather. You are told they are affected by rain, and an attempt has been made to cover them ; but the wind will affect them ; and any gale of wind which would affect the traffic on the Mersey would render it impossible to set off a locomotive engine, either by poking of the fire, or keeping up the pressure of the steam till the boiler was ready to burst.
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Page 270 - Who but Mr. Stephenson would have thought of entering into Chat Moss, carrying it out almost like wet dung ? It is ignorance almost inconceivable. It is perfect madness, in a person called upon to speak on a scientific subject, to propose such a plan. . . . Every part of the scheme shows that this man has applied himself to a subject of which he has no knowledge, and to which he has no science to apply.
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