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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... success- ful . During the first eleven months it carried 456,750 passen- gers , or an average of about 1300 a day . But the railway hav- ing been found more convenient to the public than either the river boats or the omnibuses , the ...
... success- ful . During the first eleven months it carried 456,750 passen- gers , or an average of about 1300 a day . But the railway hav- ing been found more convenient to the public than either the river boats or the omnibuses , the ...
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... success - that of the Railway : the smooth rail to bear the load , as well as the steam - engine to draw it . Expedients were early adopted for the purpose of diminishing friction between the wheels of vehicles and the roads along which ...
... success - that of the Railway : the smooth rail to bear the load , as well as the steam - engine to draw it . Expedients were early adopted for the purpose of diminishing friction between the wheels of vehicles and the roads along which ...
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... be accelerated , retarded , destroyed , revived instantly and easily . And if this answers in practice as it does in theory , the machine can not fail of success ! Eureka ! * Soho MSS . 56 SCHEMERS AND PROJECTORS . [ PART I. " The.
... be accelerated , retarded , destroyed , revived instantly and easily . And if this answers in practice as it does in theory , the machine can not fail of success ! Eureka ! * Soho MSS . 56 SCHEMERS AND PROJECTORS . [ PART I. " The.
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... above a hundred working models , in a great variety of forms ; and though none of his schemes were attended with prac- tical success , he adds that he gained far more in amusement than 58 SCHEMERS AND PROJECTORS . [ PART I. he lost.
... above a hundred working models , in a great variety of forms ; and though none of his schemes were attended with prac- tical success , he adds that he gained far more in amusement than 58 SCHEMERS AND PROJECTORS . [ PART I. he lost.
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... success in the lines which are perhaps more generally known than any he has written for , though Horace Walpole declared that he could " read the Botanic Garden over and over again forever , " the poetry of Darwin is now all but ...
... success in the lines which are perhaps more generally known than any he has written for , though Horace Walpole declared that he could " read the Botanic Garden over and over again forever , " the poetry of Darwin is now all but ...
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