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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... object in publishing this book in its original form , some ten years since , was to describe , in connection with the " Life of George Stephenson , " the origin and progress of the rail- way system , and to show by what moral and ...
... object in publishing this book in its original form , some ten years since , was to describe , in connection with the " Life of George Stephenson , " the origin and progress of the rail- way system , and to show by what moral and ...
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... , and the remaining portions are now added with the object of rendering more complete the record of the son's life , as well as the early history of the Railway System . CONTENTS . PARTI . CHAPTER I. SCHEMERS AND PROJECTORS .
... , and the remaining portions are now added with the object of rendering more complete the record of the son's life , as well as the early history of the Railway System . CONTENTS . PARTI . CHAPTER I. SCHEMERS AND PROJECTORS .
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... object of desire . The marvelous gift of speed conferred by Fortunatus's Wishing Cap was what all must have envied : it conferred power . It also conferred pleasure . " Life has not many things better than this , " said Samuel Johnson ...
... object of desire . The marvelous gift of speed conferred by Fortunatus's Wishing Cap was what all must have envied : it conferred power . It also conferred pleasure . " Life has not many things better than this , " said Samuel Johnson ...
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... object ; and the streets of the long - buried city of Pompeii still bear the marks of the ancient Roman chariot- wheels , as the stone track for heavy vehicles on our modern Lon- don Bridge shows the wheel - marks of the wagons which ...
... object ; and the streets of the long - buried city of Pompeii still bear the marks of the ancient Roman chariot- wheels , as the stone track for heavy vehicles on our modern Lon- don Bridge shows the wheel - marks of the wagons which ...
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... object . It is stated in his " Memoirs " that he devoted himself to locomotive traction by va- rious methods for a period of about forty years , during which he made above a hundred working models , in a great variety of forms ; and ...
... object . It is stated in his " Memoirs " that he devoted himself to locomotive traction by va- rious methods for a period of about forty years , during which he made above a hundred working models , in a great variety of forms ; and ...
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Page 264 - We should 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 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...
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 280 - Iron would be raised in price 100 per cent., or, more probably, exhausted altogether! It would be the greatest nuisance, the most complete disturbance of quiet and comfort in all parts of the kingdom, that the ingenuity of man could invent !
Page 273 - Stephenson, self-taught men, but regular professionals. Mr. 'Francis Giles, CE, was their great card. He had been twenty-two years an engineer, and could speak with some authority. His testimony was mainly directed to the utter impossibility of forming a railway over Chat Moss.
Page 331 - engine, with the carriage containing the Duke of Wellington, was drawn up on one line, in order that the whole of the trains on the other line might pass in review before him and his party.
Page 393 - 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 227 - I was so satisfied," said he afterwards, " that a horse upon an iron road would draw ten tons for one ton on a common road, that I felt sure that before long the railway would become the King's Highway.
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 314 - 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.