Report to the Directors of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway: On the Comparative Merits of Locomotive and Fixed Engines, as a Moving PowerCarey & Lea, 1831 - 206 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 104 - The weight of the machine, with its complement of water in the boiler, must, at most, not exceed six tons; and a machine of less weight will be preferred, if it draw after it a proportionate weight; and if the weight of the engine, &c.
الصفحة 179 - Directors, for facilitating Locomotion. Communications were received from all classes of persons, each recommending an improved power or an improved carriage; from professors of philosophy, down to the humblest mechanic, all were zealous in their proffers of assistance; England, America, and Continental Europe were alike tributary. Every element and almost every substance were brought into requisition, and made subservient to the great work. The friction of...
الصفحة 104 - The engine to be delivered complete for trial, at the Liverpool end of the railway, not later than the 1st. of October next. " 8th. — The price of the engine which may be accepted, not to exceed ^550. delivered on the railway; and any engine not approved, to be taken back by the owner. " NB — The Railway Company will provide the engine tender with a supply of water and fuel for the experiment. The distance within the rails is four feet eight inches and a half.
الصفحة 107 - ... by eight o'clock in the morning, and the load assigned to it shall be three times the weight thereof. The water in the boiler shall be cold, and there shall be no fuel in the fireplace. As much fuel shall be weighed, and as much water shall be measured and delivered into the...
الصفحة 131 - Knowsley, passing about two miles distance from the hall. In deciding upon the proposed route, the Committee have been anxious, at considerable inconvenience and expense, to select a line which may not only be eligible, considered in itself, but may be as little objectionable as possible, with reference to individual and local interests. " The ground has been surveyed by eminent Engineers, and the estimated expense of a Rail-road, upon the most improved construction, including the charge for Locomotive...
الصفحة 116 - Booth accordingly. And further, to show that the engine had been working quite within its powers, Mr. Stephenson ordered it to be brought upon the ground and detached from all incumbrances, when, in making two trips, it was found to travel at the astonishing rate of 35 miles an hour. The 'Rocket...
الصفحة 173 - From the top of the Liverpool tunnel to Manchester, with the exception of two inclined planes at Rainhill, (one ascending and the other descending, at an inclination of 1 in 96, and where some assistant power must be used) there is no greater inclination than in the ratio of about...
الصفحة 206 - The journey was performed in two hours and fifty-four minutes, including three stoppages of five minutes each (one only being necessary under ordinary circumstances) for oiling, watering, and taking in fuel ; under the disadvantages also • of an adverse wind, and of a great additional friction in the wheels and axles, owing to their being entirely new. The train was assisted up the Rainhill inclined plane by other engines, at the rate of...
الصفحة 194 - Perhaps the most striking result produced by the completion of this railway, is, the sudden and marvellous change which has been effected in our ideas of time and space.
الصفحة 167 - Whiston inclined plane there is a portion of the road (nearly two miles in length) on the exact level. About half a mile from the top of the inclined plane, the turnpike road from Liverpool to Manchester crosses the line of the Railway at an acute angle of 34 degrees, and is carried over the Railway by a substantial stone bridge, of very curious and beautiful construction, being built on the diagonal or skew principle, each stone being cut to a particular angle to fit into a particular place, the...