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... IMPROVED LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES : AND TABLES OF THE COMPARATIVE COST OF CONVEYANCE ON CANALS , RAILWAYS , AND TURNPIKE ROADS . THIRD EDITION , WITH ADDITIONS . Illustrated by several New`Engravings . BY NICHOLAS WOOD , " COLLIERY VIEWER ...
... IMPROVED LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES : AND TABLES OF THE COMPARATIVE COST OF CONVEYANCE ON CANALS , RAILWAYS , AND TURNPIKE ROADS . THIRD EDITION , WITH ADDITIONS . Illustrated by several New`Engravings . BY NICHOLAS WOOD , " COLLIERY VIEWER ...
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... improvements were made in every part of their economy ; the establishment of coaches , dragged by horses , upon that part of the Railway between Stockton and Darlington , shewed that , to a certain extent , they were capable of being ...
... improvements were made in every part of their economy ; the establishment of coaches , dragged by horses , upon that part of the Railway between Stockton and Darlington , shewed that , to a certain extent , they were capable of being ...
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... improvements , and bringing up the information to the latest period , the author has been induced to enter upon the revision of the former edition , which he now takes the liberty of presenting to the notice of the public . In ...
... improvements , and bringing up the information to the latest period , the author has been induced to enter upon the revision of the former edition , which he now takes the liberty of presenting to the notice of the public . In ...
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... improved engines . Professor Barlow's experiments and calculations on the strength of rails have also contributed largely to our stock of information , which has enabled us to enter more into detail upon this part of the subject , than ...
... improved engines . Professor Barlow's experiments and calculations on the strength of rails have also contributed largely to our stock of information , which has enabled us to enter more into detail upon this part of the subject , than ...
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... Ericsson's Engine 11. Description of the Rocket Engine 12 . 13 . 14 . Engines of the Sans Pareil Engine of the Novelty Engine of the improved Killingworth Art . 15. Description of the modern Engines for public a 3 CONTENTS . xxi.
... Ericsson's Engine 11. Description of the Rocket Engine 12 . 13 . 14 . Engines of the Sans Pareil Engine of the Novelty Engine of the improved Killingworth Art . 15. Description of the modern Engines for public a 3 CONTENTS . xxi.
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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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