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... Engine on the Summit 253 · 254 · 256 4. Successive Engine Planes , from one End of the Line to the other 5. Description of the different Engine Planes 257 5. Locomotive Steam Engines - Art . 1. Trevithick and Vivian's Engine 2 ...
... Engine on the Summit 253 · 254 · 256 4. Successive Engine Planes , from one End of the Line to the other 5. Description of the different Engine Planes 257 5. Locomotive Steam Engines - Art . 1. Trevithick and Vivian's Engine 2 ...
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... engine Planes Art . 1. Experiments on the Power of fixed En- gines on Railroads 2. Practical Application of the " Power fixed Engines on Railroads Page . Horses on Turnpike Roads 437 439 441 · · ib . · 446 449 - 451 - 4.52 · 453 · 455 ...
... engine Planes Art . 1. Experiments on the Power of fixed En- gines on Railroads 2. Practical Application of the " Power fixed Engines on Railroads Page . Horses on Turnpike Roads 437 439 441 · · ib . · 446 449 - 451 - 4.52 · 453 · 455 ...
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... Engine b . Relative Powers of Evaporation of radiant and communicative Caloric c . Evaporating Powers of the modern Engines - d . Evaporating Power at different Rates of Speed Page . 520 · · 521 · 524 525 · 527 · 530 of the old Engines ...
... Engine b . Relative Powers of Evaporation of radiant and communicative Caloric c . Evaporating Powers of the modern Engines - d . Evaporating Power at different Rates of Speed Page . 520 · · 521 · 524 525 · 527 · 530 of the old Engines ...
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... engine , gave about 020 , while the engine passed over the blocks . A part of this depression would take place while the engine passed over the middle of the rail , and , therefore , the deflection , due to the weight of the engine ...
... engine , gave about 020 , while the engine passed over the blocks . A part of this depression would take place while the engine passed over the middle of the rail , and , therefore , the deflection , due to the weight of the engine ...
Page 141
... engine will run over the side of the embankment , and drag the train of 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 ...
... engine will run over the side of the embankment , and drag the train of 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 ...
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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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