The Life of George Stephenson, Railway EngineerJ. Murray, 1857 - 517 pages |
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Page 434 - I put up with every rebuff, and went on with my plans, determined not to be put down. Assistance gradually increased ; great improvements were made in the locomotive ; until to-day, a train which started from London in the morning, has brought me in the afternoon to my native soil, and enabled me to meet
Page 434 - mind that I would put him to a good school. I determined that he should have as liberal a training as I could afford to give him. I was, however, a poor man ; and how do you think I managed ? I betook myself to mending my neighbours
Page 434 - witness-box of a parliamentary committee. I was not long in it, I assure you, before I began to wish for a hole to creep out at. I could not find words to satisfy either the committee or myself; or even to make them understand my meaning. Some said,
Page 529 - breaking of a wheel. But, with all these assurances, we should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congrcve's ricochet rockets, as trust
Page 529 - One of the original grounds of opposition to railways was the dangerous character of the traffic. A writer in one of our most popular reviews thus expressed, some years ago, the common opinion upon the danger of railway travelling : — " It is certainly some consolation to those who are to be whirled at the rate of
Page 167 - Observations on a General Iron Railway (with Plates and Map illustrative of the plan), showing its great superiority, by the general introduction of mechanic power, over all the present methods of conveyance by turnpike roads and canals ; and claiming the particular attention of merchants, manufacturers, farmers, and indeed every class of society.
Page 411 - for a royal commission to ascertain " whether, in future private acts for the construction of railways, provision ought to be made for securing a uniform gauge ; and whether it would be expedient and practicable to take measures to bring railways already constructed, or in progress of construction, into uniformity of gauge.
Page 433 - was more than thirty years ago ; and we first called it ' My Lord.' I then stated to some of my friends, now living, that those high velocities with which we are now so familiar would, sooner or later, be attained, and that there was no limit to the speed of such an engine, provided the works could be made to stand ; but
Page 287 - by a pressure of one hundred and fifty pounds to the square inch. 6. A mercurial gauge must be affixed to the machine, showing the steam pressure above forty-five pounds per square inch. 7. The engine must be delivered, complete and ready for
Page 125 - having discovered the fact that explosion of hydrogen gas will not pass through tubes and apertures of small dimensions, and having been the first to apply that principle in the construction of a safety lamp, is entitled to a public reward." A subscription was immediately commenced with this object, and a