A Practical Treatise on Rail-roads, and Interior Communication in General ...Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1888 - 760 páginas |
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... CONVEYANCE ON CANALS , RAILWAYS , AND TURNPIKE ROADS . THIRD EDITION , WITH ADDITIONS . Illustrated by several New`Engravings . BY NICHOLAS WOOD , " COLLIERY VIEWER , MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS , ETC. " Should we live ...
... CONVEYANCE ON CANALS , RAILWAYS , AND TURNPIKE ROADS . THIRD EDITION , WITH ADDITIONS . Illustrated by several New`Engravings . BY NICHOLAS WOOD , " COLLIERY VIEWER , MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS , ETC. " Should we live ...
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... conveyance , and the intense anxiety existing in the public mind , respecting the relative value of Canals and Railroads , as species of internal communication , render any information con- cerning them of interest ; and , if that ...
... conveyance , and the intense anxiety existing in the public mind , respecting the relative value of Canals and Railroads , as species of internal communication , render any information con- cerning them of interest ; and , if that ...
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... conveyance . In the mean time , improvements were made in every part of their economy ; the establishment of coaches , dragged by horses , upon that part of the Railway between Stockton and Darlington , shewed that , to a certain extent ...
... conveyance . In the mean time , improvements were made in every part of their economy ; the establishment of coaches , dragged by horses , upon that part of the Railway between Stockton and Darlington , shewed that , to a certain extent ...
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... conveyance of general merchandize ; but with the assistance of Locomotive engines , it has been proved that they are capable of effecting a rapidity of transit , greater than by any other practical mode of travelling . The greatest ...
... conveyance of general merchandize ; but with the assistance of Locomotive engines , it has been proved that they are capable of effecting a rapidity of transit , greater than by any other practical mode of travelling . The greatest ...
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... conveyance of passengers , but also for general merchandize , has affixed a value to Railroads , possessed by no other single species of conveyance . Uniting , then , the several qualities of being alike adapted for the transit of light ...
... conveyance of passengers , but also for general merchandize , has affixed a value to Railroads , possessed by no other single species of conveyance . Uniting , then , the several qualities of being alike adapted for the transit of light ...
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ascertain axle bearing blocks boiler breadth case-hardened cast cast-iron rails chair coals connecting rod conveyance conveyed cross drains curve cylinder Darlington depth descending diameter drag driving wheels edge rail edge-rail effect elliptic embankment empty carriages equal experiments fastened fixed flanch frame friction Grand Junction railway half hole horses inclination inclined plane increased Killingworth laid length line of railway line of road Liverpool and Manchester loaded carriages locomotive engines Manchester railway miles an hour miles per hour motion moving Newcastle Observed deflection parallel rail passengers Permanent deflection piston plane Plate point rails pounds per yard pressure quantity railroad railway bars rate of speed resistance rest riages roll rope sheeves shew shewn in Fig side sleepers springs square inch steam stone surface Swiftsure TABLE tion tons travelling tube velocity waggons wedge wheels width wooden wrought wrought-iron rails
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