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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... traveling at the inconceivable rapidity of 800 feet per minute ! To bear the load of heavy engines run at high speeds , a much stronger and heavier road was found necessary ; and shortly aft- er the opening of the Liverpool and ...
... traveling at the inconceivable rapidity of 800 feet per minute ! To bear the load of heavy engines run at high speeds , a much stronger and heavier road was found necessary ; and shortly aft- er the opening of the Liverpool and ...
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... traveled by coaches in Great Britain in 1834 , an average distance of twelve miles each , at an average cost of 58. a passen- ger , or at the rate of 5d . a mile ; whereas above 313 millions are now carried by railway an average ...
... traveled by coaches in Great Britain in 1834 , an average distance of twelve miles each , at an average cost of 58. a passen- ger , or at the rate of 5d . a mile ; whereas above 313 millions are now carried by railway an average ...
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... traveling by railway at high speeds should have been rendered comparatively so safe . To be struck by lightning is one of the rarest of all causes of death , yet more persons were killed by lightning in Great Britain , in 1866 , than ...
... traveling by railway at high speeds should have been rendered comparatively so safe . To be struck by lightning is one of the rarest of all causes of death , yet more persons were killed by lightning in Great Britain , in 1866 , than ...
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... traveled in Great Britain in 1866 at 313,699,268 , of whom fifteen were accidentally killed , it would appear that , even supposing a person to have a permanent exist- ence , and to make a journey by railway daily , the probability of ...
... traveled in Great Britain in 1866 at 313,699,268 , of whom fifteen were accidentally killed , it would appear that , even supposing a person to have a permanent exist- ence , and to make a journey by railway daily , the probability of ...
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... travels at the rate of 288,000 miles a sec- ond , and is therefore always able to herald the coming train . The electric telegraph may , indeed , be regarded as the nervous system of the railway . By its means the whole line is kept ...
... travels at the rate of 288,000 miles a sec- ond , and is therefore always able to herald the coming train . The electric telegraph may , indeed , be regarded as the nervous system of the railway . By its means the whole line is kept ...
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Page 57 - 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 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 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.
Page 177 - 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 310 - A mercurial gauge must be affixed to the machine, showing the steam pressure above forty-five pounds per square inch. 7. The engine must be delivered, complete and ready for trial, at the Liverpool end of the railway, not later than the 1st of October, 1829. 8. The price of the engine must not exceed £550.
Page 499 - SOUTH AFRICA. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa: including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast ; thence across the Continent, down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean. By DAVID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D., DCL With Portrait, Maps, and Illustrations.
Page 234 - ... 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 65 - 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 395 - I said to my friends that there was no limit to the speed of such an engine, provided the works could be made to stand.
Page 409 - Mr. Hudson was voted praises, testimonials, and surplus shares, alike liberally ; and scarcely a word against him could find a hearing. He was equally popular outside the circle of railway proprietors. His entertainments at Albert Gate were crowded ; and he went his round of visits among the peerage like any prince.