 | Frederick Smeeton Williams - Railroads - 1852 - 430 pages
...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...keeping up the pressure of the steam till the boiler is ready to burst. I say so, for a scientific person happened to see a locomotive engine coming down... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Collection locomotives - 1857 - 576 pages
...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...keeping up the pressure of the steam till the boiler is ready to burst."* How amusing it now is to read these extraordinary views as to the formation of... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1858 - 588 pages
...will affect them ; and any gale of wind which would affect the traffic on the Mersey would render ft impossible to set off a locomotive engine, either by poking of the ore, or keeping up the pressure of steam till tbe boiler Is ready to burst. But, in the language of... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1859 - 384 pages
...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...keeping up the pressure of the steam till the boiler is ready to burst."- How amusing it now is to read these extraordinary views as to the formation of... | |
 | George Measom - 1859 - 592 pages
...than four miles an hour. The wind will affect them ; any gale of wind wHch would affect the traffic on the Mersey, would render it impossible to set off a locomotive engine, either by poking the fire, or keeping up the pressure of the steam until the boiler burst : a shower of rain retards... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Engineers - 1862 - 558 pages
...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...extraordinary views as to the formation of a railway over VOL. III. P 210 EVIDENCE OF ENGINEERS. CHAP. XI. Chat Moss, and ihe impossibility of starting a locomotive... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Engineers - 1862 - 792 pages
...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...fire, or keeping up the pressure of the steam till the toiler was ready to burnt" How amusing it now is to read these extraordinary views as to the formation... | |
 | Henry Alexander Glass - Transportation - 1864 - 134 pages
...to cover them ; but the wind will affect them ; and any gale of wind that would affect the traffic on the Mersey would render it impossible to set off...of the steam till the boiler was ready to burst." Distinguished engineers were examined to prove that the contemplated line was utterly impracticable.... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - Philosophy, English - 1865 - 432 pages
...practical purposes I can keep up with him by the canal. Any gale of wind that would affect the "traffic on the Mersey would render it impossible to set off a locomotive engine.' And the fame and fortune amid which George Stephenson died may be set off against Mr. Alderson's declaration,... | |
 | English literature - 1868 - 600 pages
...Harrison, one of the counsel for the opposition — that ' any gale of wind which would affect the traffic on the Mersey would render it impossible to set off...of the steam till the boiler was ready to burst.' It is not necessary to point out how completely these prophecies of failure have been falsified ; and... | |
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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... 
