A Practical Treatise on Rail-roads, and Interior Communication in General ...Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1888 - 760 páginas |
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... Plane , the Inclination of which is not sufficient to enable the descending Carriages to drag the Rope after them 3. Double Plane , with an Engine on the Summit 253 · 254 · 256 4. Successive Engine Planes , from one End of the Line to ...
... Plane , the Inclination of which is not sufficient to enable the descending Carriages to drag the Rope after them 3. Double Plane , with an Engine on the Summit 253 · 254 · 256 4. Successive Engine Planes , from one End of the Line to ...
Página 129
... plane ; now , when the bearing surfaces of the rails do not lie in a plane , exactly parallel to the plane of the axles , ( and this , in practice , is seldom the case , ) the weight of the carriage will rest upon three of the wheels ...
... plane ; now , when the bearing surfaces of the rails do not lie in a plane , exactly parallel to the plane of the axles , ( and this , in practice , is seldom the case , ) the weight of the carriage will rest upon three of the wheels ...
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... plane , " on which the surplus gravity of the loaded waggons was usefully employed , in dragging the empty ones up the plane . The prevailing means of draught then were , horses upon the level , or slightly descending , or ascending ...
... plane , " on which the surplus gravity of the loaded waggons was usefully employed , in dragging the empty ones up the plane . The prevailing means of draught then were , horses upon the level , or slightly descending , or ascending ...
Página 233
... plane , inclined to the horizon ; appears to have been upon canals , where the weight of the loaded boats , lowered down , was made to draw the empty boats up a sloping plane , from one level to another . In the year 1788 , Mr. Reynolds ...
... plane , inclined to the horizon ; appears to have been upon canals , where the weight of the loaded boats , lowered down , was made to draw the empty boats up a sloping plane , from one level to another . In the year 1788 , Mr. Reynolds ...
Página 234
... plane be such , as to give a preponderance to the loaded carriages , over those which are empty , but such a preponderance as will cause them to descend , and drag up the empty car- riages , with the requisite velocity . If we give to ...
... plane be such , as to give a preponderance to the loaded carriages , over those which are empty , but such a preponderance as will cause them to descend , and drag up the empty car- riages , with the requisite velocity . If we give to ...
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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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