Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 156
niformity in the acting power is obtained. With certain modificationsin detail, such as horizontal instead of vertical pinions, this system hasbeen largely adopted wherever cables have been dispensed with. In theinclined railway by which Mount Pilatus, near Lucerne, is now ascended,horizontal teeth… … Fig. 57a.—Train Ascendmg the Rigi. would have offered a less margin of safety than those on the plan actuallyadopted. In some places, as among the Alps, and more particularly inSouth America, there are railways in which the ordinary mode of tractionand that with the rack are combined ; that is,…
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