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... Resistance of Carriages on Railroads . § 1. Different Kinds of Friction 2. Friction with respect to Weight . Coal Waggons , with inside Bearings 1. Grimshaw's Experiments 2. Killingworth Experiments 3. Hetton Experiments 3. Friction ...
... Resistance of Carriages on Railroads . § 1. Different Kinds of Friction 2. Friction with respect to Weight . Coal Waggons , with inside Bearings 1. Grimshaw's Experiments 2. Killingworth Experiments 3. Hetton Experiments 3. Friction ...
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... Resistance of Turnpike Roads 642 2. Cost of conveying Goods and Passengers on Turn- pike Roads 649 CHAP . XII . - On Canals . § 1. Experiments on the Resistance of heavy Boats on § 2. Experiments on the Resistance of swift Boats on ...
... Resistance of Turnpike Roads 642 2. Cost of conveying Goods and Passengers on Turn- pike Roads 649 CHAP . XII . - On Canals . § 1. Experiments on the Resistance of heavy Boats on § 2. Experiments on the Resistance of swift Boats on ...
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... resistance to a certain extent ; yet the bar not being of sufficient thickness , a considerable bending took place , when the carriages were loaded , and the resistance was consequently very little reduced , below that of a well ...
... resistance to a certain extent ; yet the bar not being of sufficient thickness , a considerable bending took place , when the carriages were loaded , and the resistance was consequently very little reduced , below that of a well ...
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... resistance was forty - three pounds ; consequently , the difference of " resistance to that weight was seven pounds , being upwards of one fifth increase . ” 66 The tendency of the edge - rail to form a rut or groove , on the periphery ...
... resistance was forty - three pounds ; consequently , the difference of " resistance to that weight was seven pounds , being upwards of one fifth increase . ” 66 The tendency of the edge - rail to form a rut or groove , on the periphery ...
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... resistance , of the head , which is very little , has been neglected ; the resistance of the tensile portion of the rail , from the neutral axis , being taken ; and this , it must be observed , is , perhaps , the most correct way of ...
... resistance , of the head , which is very little , has been neglected ; the resistance of the tensile portion of the rail , from the neutral axis , being taken ; and this , it must be observed , is , perhaps , the most correct way of ...
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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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