A Practical Treatise on Rail-roads, and Interior Communication in General ...Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1888 - 760 páginas |
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... laid upon their backs . It is very uncertain at what period wheel carriages were first introduced into Great Britain ; the war- chariot of the ancient Britons , formed a species of wheel carriage , but it does not appear that at that ...
... laid upon their backs . It is very uncertain at what period wheel carriages were first introduced into Great Britain ; the war- chariot of the ancient Britons , formed a species of wheel carriage , but it does not appear that at that ...
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... laid upon the surface of the rails , and fastened down with common nails , to diminish the resistance opposed to the wheels , and equalise the draught of the horse . This , no doubt , would be found a great improvement , not only in ...
... laid upon the surface of the rails , and fastened down with common nails , to diminish the resistance opposed to the wheels , and equalise the draught of the horse . This , no doubt , would be found a great improvement , not only in ...
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... laid down on that railroad in 1808 . The use of malleable iron rails was extremely limited until 1820 , when Mr. John Birkinshaw , of the Bedling- ton iron - works , obtained a patent for an improvement of their form . Previously to ...
... laid down on that railroad in 1808 . The use of malleable iron rails was extremely limited until 1820 , when Mr. John Birkinshaw , of the Bedling- ton iron - works , obtained a patent for an improvement of their form . Previously to ...
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... laid parallel to each other , upon the sleepers or transverse bearing rails , bb , bb . The mode of fastening them together , was by means of pins or pegs of wood , shewn at cc , holes being bored through the rail and sleeper , and the ...
... laid parallel to each other , upon the sleepers or transverse bearing rails , bb , bb . The mode of fastening them together , was by means of pins or pegs of wood , shewn at cc , holes being bored through the rail and sleeper , and the ...
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... laid upon those , and firmly secured to them by wooden pins , in the same manner as the rails of the single way are fastened to the sleepers . In the " single way " the joinings of the rails are , necessarily , upon a sleeper , as shown ...
... laid upon those , and firmly secured to them by wooden pins , in the same manner as the rails of the single way are fastened to the sleepers . In the " single way " the joinings of the rails are , necessarily , upon a sleeper , as shown ...
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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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