Great facts : a popular history and description of the most remarkable inventions during the present century (1860)
Bakewell, Frederick C. (Frederick Collier), 1800-1869 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 63
ng a passenger train of 120 tons at an average STEAM CARRIAGES AND RAILWAYS. 47 speed of 60 miles an hour on easy gradients; and theeffective power, as measured by a djmamometer, isstated to be equal to T43 horses. The accompanying engraving of one of the recent-ly constructed engines on the Great… … The complete success of the ^Eocket havingsettled the question of the mode of traction, the Di-rectors of the Liverpool and Manchester Railwaymade increased efforts to complete the line, and toopen it for general traffic. In September, 1830, allwas ready for the opening, which it was…
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