A Practical Treatise on Rail-roads, and Interior Communication in General ...Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1888 - 760 páginas |
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... little has been done towards the exhibition of the sub- ject in a systematic manner . The want of experiments on the friction of carriages , —the want of detailed obser- vations on the performance of horses , and of other A 3.
... little has been done towards the exhibition of the sub- ject in a systematic manner . The want of experiments on the friction of carriages , —the want of detailed obser- vations on the performance of horses , and of other A 3.
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Nicholas Wood. vations on the performance of horses , and of other kinds of motive power , have alike been the subject of regret among those interested in such enquiries ; and little more than mere conjecture has transpired in the ...
Nicholas Wood. vations on the performance of horses , and of other kinds of motive power , have alike been the subject of regret among those interested in such enquiries ; and little more than mere conjecture has transpired in the ...
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... horses , upon that part of the Railway between Stockton and Darlington , shewed that , to a certain extent , they were capable of being applied to the conveyance of passengers , as well as goods , but still they made little progress ...
... horses , upon that part of the Railway between Stockton and Darlington , shewed that , to a certain extent , they were capable of being applied to the conveyance of passengers , as well as goods , but still they made little progress ...
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... Horses 2. Military Roads 3. Railways Page . · · 1254 4. Canals · 14 CHAP . II . - Description of Rails , and Progress of Railroads . § 1. Wooden Rails 2. Cast - iron Rails . Plate Rail 3 . Ditto . Edge Rail Ditto Different Forms of ...
... Horses 2. Military Roads 3. Railways Page . · · 1254 4. Canals · 14 CHAP . II . - Description of Rails , and Progress of Railroads . § 1. Wooden Rails 2. Cast - iron Rails . Plate Rail 3 . Ditto . Edge Rail Ditto Different Forms of ...
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... Horses 3. Gravity - Self - acting Planes Art . 1. Theory of Inclined Planes 2. Description of Apparatus for Self - acting Planes · Page . 227 231 233 234 - 240 250 4. Steam Engines , fixed upon ascending Planes Art . 1. Descending ...
... Horses 3. Gravity - Self - acting Planes Art . 1. Theory of Inclined Planes 2. Description of Apparatus for Self - acting Planes · Page . 227 231 233 234 - 240 250 4. Steam Engines , fixed upon ascending Planes Art . 1. Descending ...
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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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