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... Cast - iron rails . Wrought - iron rails . Experiment IV . Weight of wheels and load , W. 40 cwt . Cast - iron rails . Wrought - iron rails . No. of vib . No. of vib . wedged . No. of vib . No. of vib . No. of vib . wedged . No. of vib ...
... Cast - iron rails . Wrought - iron rails . Experiment IV . Weight of wheels and load , W. 40 cwt . Cast - iron rails . Wrought - iron rails . No. of vib . No. of vib . wedged . No. of vib . No. of vib . No. of vib . wedged . No. of vib ...
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... Cast - iron Rails . Plate Rail 3 . Ditto . Edge Rail Ditto Different Forms of Rails 4. Malleable Iron Rails . 5 . Ditto . 20 25 · 28 · 41 - 47 - 55 60 62 6. Comparative Qualities , of cast and wrought Iron for Rails · 7. Comparative ...
... Cast - iron Rails . Plate Rail 3 . Ditto . Edge Rail Ditto Different Forms of Rails 4. Malleable Iron Rails . 5 . Ditto . 20 25 · 28 · 41 - 47 - 55 60 62 6. Comparative Qualities , of cast and wrought Iron for Rails · 7. Comparative ...
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... cast Iron Rails 8. Comparative Durability , of cast and wrought Iron Railway Bars Page . 124 - 126 · 130 133 9. Comparative Resistance to the Carriages , of cast and wrought Iron Railway Bars - CHAP . IV . On the Formation , and ...
... cast Iron Rails 8. Comparative Durability , of cast and wrought Iron Railway Bars Page . 124 - 126 · 130 133 9. Comparative Resistance to the Carriages , of cast and wrought Iron Railway Bars - CHAP . IV . On the Formation , and ...
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... also in the cost of the material . The waste of timber thus occasioned , principally by the rail , when partly worn , being insufficient to 8 00 INTERNAL COMMUNICATION . Comparative Durability, of cast and wrought Iron.
... also in the cost of the material . The waste of timber thus occasioned , principally by the rail , when partly worn , being insufficient to 8 00 INTERNAL COMMUNICATION . Comparative Durability, of cast and wrought Iron.
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... cast - iron rails were first substituted for wooden ones ; but , owing to the old waggons continuing to be employed , which were of too much weight for the cast iron , they did not completely succeed in the first attempt . However ...
... cast - iron rails were first substituted for wooden ones ; but , owing to the old waggons continuing to be employed , which were of too much weight for the cast iron , they did not completely succeed in the first attempt . However ...
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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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