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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... took a lively interest in the improvement of the " Life " of his father , and continued to furnish corrections and additions for insertion in the successive editions of the book which were called for by the public . After the first two ...
... took a lively interest in the improvement of the " Life " of his father , and continued to furnish corrections and additions for insertion in the successive editions of the book which were called for by the public . After the first two ...
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... took pleasure in exhibiting to his intimate friends ; and though he long continued to speculate about road locomotion , and was persuaded of its practicability , he refrained from embodying his ideas of it in any more complete working ...
... took pleasure in exhibiting to his intimate friends ; and though he long continued to speculate about road locomotion , and was persuaded of its practicability , he refrained from embodying his ideas of it in any more complete working ...
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... took out letters patent in the same year , securing the invention , or rather the novel combination of inventions , em- bodied in his steam - boat , but he never succeeded in getting it in- troduced into practical use . From the date of ...
... took out letters patent in the same year , securing the invention , or rather the novel combination of inventions , em- bodied in his steam - boat , but he never succeeded in getting it in- troduced into practical use . From the date of ...
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... took an active part from the first in opposing the Birmingham patent , and he is said to have constructed several engines , with the assistance of William Bull ( formerly an erector of Watt's machines ) , with the object of evading it ...
... took an active part from the first in opposing the Birmingham patent , and he is said to have constructed several engines , with the assistance of William Bull ( formerly an erector of Watt's machines ) , with the object of evading it ...
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... took out in 1802 , in his own and Vivian's name , for an improved steam - engine , and " the application there- of for driving carriages and for other purposes . " The arrangement of Trevithick's engine was exceedingly in- genious . It ...
... took out in 1802 , in his own and Vivian's name , for an improved steam - engine , and " the application there- of for driving carriages and for other purposes . " The arrangement of Trevithick's engine was exceedingly in- genious . It ...
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