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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... idea of the enormous number of per- sons represented by these figures . The mind is merely bewilder- ed by them , and can form no adequate notion of their magni- tude . To reckon them singly would occupy twenty years , count- ing at the ...
... idea of the enormous number of per- sons represented by these figures . The mind is merely bewilder- ed by them , and can form no adequate notion of their magni- tude . To reckon them singly would occupy twenty years , count- ing at the ...
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... ideas into effect , and to work out results which even then were of a remarkable charac- ter , though they have since , as above described , become so much more extraordinary . The favor with which successive editions of the book have ...
... ideas into effect , and to work out results which even then were of a remarkable charac- ter , though they have since , as above described , become so much more extraordinary . The favor with which successive editions of the book have ...
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... ideas into effect , and to work out results which even then were of a remarkable character , though they have since , as above described , become so much more extraordinary . The favor with which successive editions of the book have ...
... ideas into effect , and to work out results which even then were of a remarkable character , though they have since , as above described , become so much more extraordinary . The favor with which successive editions of the book have ...
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... idea of it , born in one age , was revived in the ages that followed . It was embodied first in one model , then in another - the labors of one inventor being taken up by his successors until at length , after many disappointments and ...
... idea of it , born in one age , was revived in the ages that followed . It was embodied first in one model , then in another - the labors of one inventor being taken up by his successors until at length , after many disappointments and ...
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... idea for other minds to work upon . The idea of employing steam in locomotion was revived from time to time , and formed the subject of much curious specula- tion . About the middle of last century we find Benjamin Frank- lin , then ...
... idea for other minds to work upon . The idea of employing steam in locomotion was revived from time to time , and formed the subject of much curious specula- tion . About the middle of last century we find Benjamin Frank- lin , then ...
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