| Frederick Smeeton Williams - Railroads - 1852 - 430 pages
...nearly, at those quantities and those prices which are decidedly correct. No engineer in his senses would go through Chat Moss, if he wanted to make a railroad from Liverpool to Manchester." This witness estimated the cost of the line proposed by Mr. Stephenson at a million and a half. He... | |
| Samuel Smiles - Collection locomotives - 1857 - 576 pages
...20,000/. !* But the opposition mainly relied upon the evidence of the leading engineers — not, like Mr. Stephenson, self-taught men, but regular professionals....to make a railroad from Liverpool to Manchester." f Mr. Giles thus described this bottomless pit : " The surface of the Moss is a sort of long, coarse,... | |
| Samuel Smiles - 1857 - 550 pages
...relied on the evidence of the leading engineers — not, like Mr. Stephenson, self-taught men, but the regular professionals. Mr. Francis Giles, CE, was...to make a railroad from Liverpool to Manchester." f Mr. Giles thus described this bottomless pit: " The surface of the Moss is a sort of long, coarse,... | |
| Samuel Smiles - Books - 1858 - 590 pages
...20,000/. ! f But the opposition mainly relied upon the evidence of the leading engineers — not, like Mr. Stephenson, self-taught men, but regular professionals....Moss if he wanted to make a railroad from Liverpool * Report and Evidence, p. 354. f Evidence, p. 379. tH.*p. xix.] EVIDENCE OF F. GILES, CE 237 to Manchester."*... | |
| Samuel Smiles - 1859 - 384 pages
...20,000?. ! But the opposition mainly relied upon the evidence of the leading engineers — not, like Mr. Stephenson, self-taught men, but regular professionals....their great card. He had been twenty-two years an eugineei, and could speak with some authority. His testimony was mainly directed to the utter impossibility... | |
| Samuel Smiles - Engineers - 1862 - 792 pages
...leather." But the opposition mainly relied upon the evidence of the leading engineers — not, like Mr. Stephenson, self-taught men, but regular professionals....to Manchester In my judgment a railroad certainly cannot be safely made over Chat Moss without going to the bottom of the Moss. The soil ought all to... | |
| Samuel Smiles - Engineers - 1879 - 464 pages
...not like Stephenson, self-taught men, but regular professionals. One of these, Mr. Francis Giles, CE, had been twenty-two years an engineer, and could speak...forming a railway over Chat Moss. " No engineer in Ms senses ," said he, " would go through Chat Moss if he wanted to make a railroad from Liverpool to... | |
| Frederick Smeeton Williams - Railroads - 1883 - 548 pages
...almost inconceivable. It is perfect madness." "No engineer in his senses," said Mr. Francis Giles, CE, "would go through Chat Moss if he wanted to make a...railroad from Liverpool to Manchester. In my judgment," he added, with amusing self-contradictoriness of style, "a railroad certainly cannot be safely made... | |
| Frederick Smeeton Williams - Railroads - 1884 - 548 pages
...almost inconceivable. It is perfect madness." "No engineer in his senses," said Mr. Francis Giles, CE, " would go through Chat Moss if he wanted to make a...railroad from Liverpool to Manchester. In my judgment," he added, with amusing self-contradictoriness of style, " a railroad certainly cannot be safely made... | |
| Samuel Smiles - Locomotives - 1889 - 472 pages
...20,000£ ! * But the opposition mainly relied upon the evidence of the leading engineers — not, like Mr. Stephenson, self-taught men, but regular professionals....to make a railroad from Liverpool to Manchester." f Mr. Giles thus described this bottomless pit: "The surface of the Moss is a sort of long, coarse,... | |
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