A Practical Treatise on Rail-roads, and Interior Communication in General ...Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1888 - 760 páginas |
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... parallel ; and bulky carts are made , with four rollers fitting those rails , whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals , and is immense benefit to the coal merchants . " * At that time ...
... parallel ; and bulky carts are made , with four rollers fitting those rails , whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals , and is immense benefit to the coal merchants . " * At that time ...
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... 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 pins ...
... 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 pins ...
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... parallel trenches are cut along the line of railway , and of a distance from each other , equal to the width between the rails ; these trenches are filled with broken stones or gravel , on which the wooden rails are laid ; similar ...
... parallel trenches are cut along the line of railway , and of a distance from each other , equal to the width between the rails ; these trenches are filled with broken stones or gravel , on which the wooden rails are laid ; similar ...
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... parallel with the inclination of the general line of road ; when this is the case , the rails will form a con- tinuous , smooth , and uninterrupted line , with the excep- tion of the joinings of the rails ; and if the joinings are ...
... parallel with the inclination of the general line of road ; when this is the case , the rails will form a con- tinuous , smooth , and uninterrupted line , with the excep- tion of the joinings of the rails ; and if the joinings are ...
Página 32
... parallel with the base of the chair on which the rails rest ; and in the rails , they are at equal dis- tances from the top or bearing surface , or parallel thereto . The rails therefore either rest upon the flat base of the chair , or ...
... parallel with the base of the chair on which the rails rest ; and in the rails , they are at equal dis- tances from the top or bearing surface , or parallel thereto . The rails therefore either rest upon the flat base of the chair , or ...
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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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