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... mode , not only for the conveyance of passengers , but also for general merchandize , has affixed a value to ... modes , not possessing such properties , in all cases where the extent of traffic is such as to justify the outlay of ...
... mode , not only for the conveyance of passengers , but also for general merchandize , has affixed a value to ... modes , not possessing such properties , in all cases where the extent of traffic is such as to justify the outlay of ...
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... Mode of passing yielding Ground or Mosses 18. Construction of Passing Places and Turn Tables CHAP . V. - Construction of Carriages adapted to Railroads . § 1. Coal Waggons , with Wooden Wheels 2. Cast Iron Wheels 3 . 4 . Ditto Ditto 5 ...
... Mode of passing yielding Ground or Mosses 18. Construction of Passing Places and Turn Tables CHAP . V. - Construction of Carriages adapted to Railroads . § 1. Coal Waggons , with Wooden Wheels 2. Cast Iron Wheels 3 . 4 . Ditto Ditto 5 ...
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... Mode of admitting the Steam into the Cylinders , and of working the Engine 342 Tables of the Dimensions of Locomotive Engines 352 CHAP . VII . On the Friction and Resistance of Carriages on Railroads . § 1. Different Kinds of Friction 2 ...
... Mode of admitting the Steam into the Cylinders , and of working the Engine 342 Tables of the Dimensions of Locomotive Engines 352 CHAP . VII . On the Friction and Resistance of Carriages on Railroads . § 1. Different Kinds of Friction 2 ...
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... mode of transport practised ; even so late as the middle of the last century , almost the whole land carriage of Scotland , and of several parts of England , was conducted on the backs of horses , which were called " pack horses ; " and ...
... mode of transport practised ; even so late as the middle of the last century , almost the whole land carriage of Scotland , and of several parts of England , was conducted on the backs of horses , which were called " pack horses ; " and ...
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... mode of communication suitable to the advanced state of the arts and manufac- tures ; and the use of wheel carriages , where the weight that could be conveyed by a horse , would be consider- ably greater than either what he could drag ...
... mode of communication suitable to the advanced state of the arts and manufac- tures ; and the use of wheel carriages , where the weight that could be conveyed by a horse , would be consider- ably greater than either what he could drag ...
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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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