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... CANALS , RAILWAYS , AND TURNPIKE ROADS . THIRD 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 ...
... CANALS , RAILWAYS , AND TURNPIKE ROADS . THIRD 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 ...
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... Canals and Railroads , as species of internal communication , render any information con- cerning them of interest ; and , if that information is founded on the result of experiments performed on a working scale , it is conceived that ...
... Canals and Railroads , as species of internal communication , render any information con- cerning them of interest ; and , if that information is founded on the result of experiments performed on a working scale , it is conceived that ...
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... canals , which we have compared with the cost of conveyance by railways , at the several rates of speed usually accomplished in the conveyance of heavy and light goods , and passengers , on these different systems of internal transport ...
... canals , which we have compared with the cost of conveyance by railways , at the several rates of speed usually accomplished in the conveyance of heavy and light goods , and passengers , on these different systems of internal transport ...
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... Canals · 14 CHAP . II . - Description of Rails , and Progress of Railroads . § 1. Wooden Rails 2. Cast - iron Rails . Plate Rail 3 . Ditto . Edge Rail Ditto Different Forms of Rails 4. Malleable Iron Rails . 5 . Ditto . 20 25 · 28 · 41 ...
... Canals · 14 CHAP . II . - Description of Rails , and Progress of Railroads . § 1. Wooden Rails 2. Cast - iron Rails . Plate Rail 3 . Ditto . Edge Rail Ditto Different Forms of Rails 4. Malleable Iron Rails . 5 . Ditto . 20 25 · 28 · 41 ...
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... Canals 4. Result of the foregoing Experiments 5. Theoretical Considerations of the Power of Horses 6. Practical Conclusions of the Performance of Horses on Railroads 7. Cost of conveying Goods on Railroads by Horses § 2. Self - acting ...
... Canals 4. Result of the foregoing Experiments 5. Theoretical Considerations of the Power of Horses 6. Practical Conclusions of the Performance of Horses on Railroads 7. Cost of conveying Goods on Railroads by Horses § 2. Self - acting ...
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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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