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... Carriages , of cast and wrought Iron Railway Bars - CHAP . IV . On the Formation , and Construction of Railways . § 1. Formation of the Line of Railway 2. Earthwork , Excavating and Embanking 3. Width of Railway at the Formation Level 4 ...
... Carriages , of cast and wrought Iron Railway Bars - CHAP . IV . On the Formation , and Construction of Railways . § 1. Formation of the Line of Railway 2. Earthwork , Excavating and Embanking 3. Width of Railway at the Formation Level 4 ...
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... carriage wheels succes- sively pass over each joint . The injury caused to the carriages , though not immediately felt , yet by frequent repetition must eventually tend to shake them to pieces ; the wear of the wheels of the carriages ...
... carriage wheels succes- sively pass over each joint . The injury caused to the carriages , though not immediately felt , yet by frequent repetition must eventually tend to shake them to pieces ; the wear of the wheels of the carriages ...
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Nicholas Wood. carriage divided equally upon the four wheels . But with carriages without springs , as before stated , the weight of the carriage , very frequently , rests upon two wheels only ; and , in practice , therefore , we must ...
Nicholas Wood. carriage divided equally upon the four wheels . But with carriages without springs , as before stated , the weight of the carriage , very frequently , rests upon two wheels only ; and , in practice , therefore , we must ...
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... carriages pass smoothly over the rails and blocks ; but as lurches so frequently occur in practice , when travel- ling at great rates of speed , it will be advisable to consider the strain as equal to one half of the weight of the carriage ...
... carriages pass smoothly over the rails and blocks ; but as lurches so frequently occur in practice , when travel- ling at great rates of speed , it will be advisable to consider the strain as equal to one half of the weight of the carriage ...
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... carriages over it . Nothing can be more fallacious , for , if the engine was , by any accident , to run off the rails , it would not drag the carriages after it . If it goes over at all , the carriages will push the engine , but the ...
... carriages over it . Nothing can be more fallacious , for , if the engine was , by any accident , to run off the rails , it would not drag the carriages after it . If it goes over at all , the carriages will push the engine , but the ...
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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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