The Life of George Stephenson and of His Son Robert Stephenson: Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway LocomotiveHarper, 1868 - 501 páginas |
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... Experiments in Bird - hatching . - Learns to Read.- His Schoolmasters . — Progress in Arithmetic . - His Dog . - Learns to Brake.- Duties of Brakesman . - Begins Shoe - mending . - Fight with a Pitman ... Page 111 CHAPTER III . ENGINE ...
... Experiments in Bird - hatching . - Learns to Read.- His Schoolmasters . — Progress in Arithmetic . - His Dog . - Learns to Brake.- Duties of Brakesman . - Begins Shoe - mending . - Fight with a Pitman ... Page 111 CHAPTER III . ENGINE ...
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... Experiments . - Professor Hodgkinson . - Chains proposed , and event- ually discarded . - The Bridge Works . - The Conway Bridge . - Britannia Bridge described . - Floating of the Tubes . - Robert Stephenson's great Anxiety . - Raising ...
... Experiments . - Professor Hodgkinson . - Chains proposed , and event- ually discarded . - The Bridge Works . - The Conway Bridge . - Britannia Bridge described . - Floating of the Tubes . - Robert Stephenson's great Anxiety . - Raising ...
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... experiment , on the suggestion of Mr. Reynolds , one of the partners ; and they were shortly after laid down to form a road . In 1776 , a cast - iron tram - way , nailed to wooden sleepers , was laid down at the Duke of Norfolk's ...
... experiment , on the suggestion of Mr. Reynolds , one of the partners ; and they were shortly after laid down to form a road . In 1776 , a cast - iron tram - way , nailed to wooden sleepers , was laid down at the Duke of Norfolk's ...
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... experiments . " The locomotive is not the invention of one man , " said Robert Stephenson at Newcastle , " but of a na- tion of mechanical engineers . " Down to the end of last century , and indeed down almost to our own time , the only ...
... experiments . " The locomotive is not the invention of one man , " said Robert Stephenson at Newcastle , " but of a na- tion of mechanical engineers . " Down to the end of last century , and indeed down almost to our own time , the only ...
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... experiment himself , and he would often tell us with what admiration he was seized when he was carried with a quick wind and yet perceived it not , the coach's motion be- ing equally quick . ” * The sailing - coach , however , was only ...
... experiment himself , and he would often tell us with what admiration he was seized when he was carried with a quick wind and yet perceived it not , the coach's motion be- ing equally quick . ” * The sailing - coach , however , was only ...
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