Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 131
ss of the locomotive. In a serious treatise on the subject, oneeminent authority hoped that he might not be confounded with thosehot-brained enthusiasts who maintained the possibility of carriages beingdriven by a steam engine on a railway at such a speed as twelve miles anhour. When the Rocket had… … Fig. 41.—Sankey Viaduct. and Manchester found their occupation gone, and all ceased to run exceptone, which had to depend on the roadside towns only, while the daily numberof passengers between the two cities rose at once from 500 to 1,600. Inthat delightful book, Smiless Life of George Stephenson,…
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