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... EDITION , WITH ADDITIONS . Illustrated by several New`Engravings . BY NICHOLAS WOOD , " COLLIERY VIEWER , MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS , ETC. " Should we live to see fully developed all the powers and energies of this ...
... EDITION , WITH ADDITIONS . Illustrated by several New`Engravings . BY NICHOLAS WOOD , " COLLIERY VIEWER , MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS , ETC. " Should we live to see fully developed all the powers and energies of this ...
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... , TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE LORD RAVENSWORTH , THE RIGHT HONORABLE LORD WHARNCLIFFE , AND JOHN BOWES , Esq . , M.P. BY THEIR MUCH OBLIGED AND HUMBLE SERVANT , NICHOLAS WOOD . 1 1 INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST EDITION . IN offering.
... , TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE LORD RAVENSWORTH , THE RIGHT HONORABLE LORD WHARNCLIFFE , AND JOHN BOWES , Esq . , M.P. BY THEIR MUCH OBLIGED AND HUMBLE SERVANT , NICHOLAS WOOD . 1 1 INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST EDITION . IN offering.
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Nicholas Wood. INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST EDITION . IN offering these pages to the Public , little expla- nation is , perhaps , necessary ; the acknowledged im- portance of Railroad conveyance , and the intense anxiety existing in the ...
Nicholas Wood. INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST EDITION . IN offering these pages to the Public , little expla- nation is , perhaps , necessary ; the acknowledged im- portance of Railroad conveyance , and the intense anxiety existing in the ...
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... species of internal communication , and serviceable in establishing a more correct judgment of its nature and utility . KILLINGWORTH , April , 1825 . INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . Ar the period of A 4 INTRODUCTION . vii.
... species of internal communication , and serviceable in establishing a more correct judgment of its nature and utility . KILLINGWORTH , April , 1825 . INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . Ar the period of A 4 INTRODUCTION . vii.
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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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