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... late as 1798 the first mail coach com- menced to run between Edinburgh and Aberdeen , a distance of about 117 miles . It was twenty - one hours on the road . Until the introduction of steam - vessels , travel- ling from London to ...
... late as 1798 the first mail coach com- menced to run between Edinburgh and Aberdeen , a distance of about 117 miles . It was twenty - one hours on the road . Until the introduction of steam - vessels , travel- ling from London to ...
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... late years was a favourite scheme for increasing the power of animal labour . Various attempts , accordingly , at different periods , have been made to introduce this system into Britain , and several tracks of continuous STONE WHEEL ...
... late years was a favourite scheme for increasing the power of animal labour . Various attempts , accordingly , at different periods , have been made to introduce this system into Britain , and several tracks of continuous STONE WHEEL ...
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... late Mr. William Jessop , engineer ; and to him is ascribed the first introduction of cast - iron edge rails ( for which a patent was granted ) with flanches cast upon the tire of the wheels to guide them on the track , instead of ...
... late Mr. William Jessop , engineer ; and to him is ascribed the first introduction of cast - iron edge rails ( for which a patent was granted ) with flanches cast upon the tire of the wheels to guide them on the track , instead of ...
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... late Mr. Barns , at the Lawson Main colliery railroad , near Newcastle- on - Tyne . Stone blocks were likewise used in the year 1800 , by Mr. W. Outram , engineer at the railway of Little Eaton in Derbyshire . In- stead , however , of ...
... late Mr. Barns , at the Lawson Main colliery railroad , near Newcastle- on - Tyne . Stone blocks were likewise used in the year 1800 , by Mr. W. Outram , engineer at the railway of Little Eaton in Derbyshire . In- stead , however , of ...
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... late Lord Penrhyn's estate , near Bangor , North Wales . He gave a farther account of this railway in a letter to the editor of the " Repertory of Arts , " dated Lime Grove , April , 1811 , in which he mentioned that this railway still ...
... late Lord Penrhyn's estate , near Bangor , North Wales . He gave a farther account of this railway in a letter to the editor of the " Repertory of Arts , " dated Lime Grove , April , 1811 , in which he mentioned that this railway still ...
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